US downplays Iran nuclear inspection report

The evidence collected will be evaluated by Iran’s “authenticated equipment”, and the Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, will be invited to Parchin as a “dignitary guest”.

An unconfirmed Associated Press report had cited a draft document suggesting the IAEA would not send its own inspectors into Parchin but would instead get data from Iran on the site.

On July 14, Iran and the IAEA signed a roadmap for “the clarification of past and present issues” regarding Iran’s nuclear program in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

The reported agreement is separate from the major nuclear agreement that President Obama and other nations have negotiated with Iran.

After critics questioned the details of the report Thursday, the AP published what it said was a transcription of a draft version of the IAEA-Iran arrangement.

The IAEA on Thursday said that report is “a misrepresentation”, but declined to clarify the deal further except to say that it fits in with its “long-established practices”.

“They do not compromise our safeguards standards in any way”, he added. President Obama could veto that measure and Blunt isn’t sure if there would be enough votes in the House or the Senate to overturn that veto.

Leaders of the American Reform Movement’s main institution believe there’s no clarity that supports taking a position “for” or “against” the Iranian nuclear agreement.

But Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, said Washington was “confident in the agency’s technical plans” for its investigation into Iran’s activities.

The topic of conversation was mostly the same, his workings with the Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs, and the Iran nuclear deal. They also insisted the main deal does give global inspectors control at more important, current, nuclear-research facilities. I think whoever votes for this is going to have to live with that vote for not only the rest of their political career, but seeing what it does in a very unsafe part of the world. Iran denies this too, but has provided the IAEA with access a few times in the past to Parchin.

Amano reiterated that IAEA protocol doesn’t allow him to release the text of the documents, but he defended his agency’s ability to properly inspect Iran’s nuclear sites and verify its compliance with a deal.

Iran says its nuclear program has no military dimensions.

The group includes former U.S. nuclear negotiators, former senior U.S. nonproliferation officials, a former director-general of the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a former member of the UN Panel of Experts on Iran, and leading nuclear specialists from the United States and around the globe.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran always views the expansion of Tehran-Baghdad ties as one of its priorities and supports the Iraqi government’s campaign against Daesh (ISIS) that aims to destabilize Iraq’s security and unity”, Press TV quoted Zarif as saying.