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Iran Blocking IAEA Access to Nuclear-Related Sites
(Wall Street Journal) Laurence Norman - Iran is refusing to allow inspectors access to nuclear-related sites while continuing to expand its nuclear activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in two confidential reports Tuesday, casting doubt on efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. In the first report, the UN atomic agency lambasted Iran for failing to cooperate with the IAEA after its discovery, starting in 2019, of traces of radioactive material at several sites in Iran. "Iran has still not provided the necessary explanations for the presence of the nuclear material particles. The Director General remains deeply concerned that nuclear material has been present at undeclared locations in Iran and that the current locations of this nuclear material are not known to the Agency." In the second report, the IAEA detailed its repeated recent requests for access to sites in Iran to reset monitoring equipment, like memory cards in cameras, so they wouldn't run out. Iran hasn't yet granted access. With cooperation between the agency and Iran disintegrating, there are calls for the U.S. and Europe to move swiftly to rebuke Iran.