Iran Says IAEA Chief Amano Visits Parchin Military Site
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), announced on Sunday that the UN nuclear agency’s chief had a visit to Parchin military site, near Tehran.
Kamalvandi said the visit to Parchin by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano took place as a formality arranged during his one-day official visit to the country.
“In this visit, Amano visited a number of workshop locations at the complex that have been the subject of unfounded allegations, especially the process of the repair and reconstruction of the access road to the Mamlou Dam near Parchin, which went down in a landslide due to recent rainfall,” he explained.
The West has claimed that alleged secret nuclear activity is underway at the site, an allegation that has categorically been denied by Tehran.
The AEOI spokesman further said that as requested by Iranian lawmakers, arrangements were also made for IAEA chief to participate in a session of the Iranian parliamentary committee to review the recent agreement made between Iran and the Group 5+1 dubbed as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Earlier today, the IAEA had said in a statement that the UN nuclear agency chief's discussions with high-level Iranian officials focused on the continued implementation of the Road-map to resolve all past and present outstanding issues.
Iran and six world powers (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) finalized the JCPOA in the Austrian capital of Vienna on July 14.
On the same day, Iran and the IAEA signed a Road-map for the clarification of past and present issues.
As part of the Road-map, the IAEA is required to finish its investigations about Iran’s nuclear activities and submit a report to the agency’s board by December 15.