UN inspectors to press Iran on Parchin military site access.

UN inspectors to press Iran on Parchin military site access.(JPost).VIENNA - The UN atomic watchdog will press its demand for access to an Iranian military site in talks starting on Monday that could influence the prospects for a broader diplomatic push to settle the decade-old stand-off over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The May 14-15 meeting in Vienna will test Iran's readiness to address UN inspectors' suspicions of military links to its nuclear program, ahead of high-stakes talks in Baghdad next week between six world powers and the Islamic Republic.The powers "would certainly take it as an encouraging sign" if Iran started to give credible answers to questions the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has about the nature of Tehran's nuclear work, a Western diplomat said. But failure or success in Vienna "doesn't necessarily predict" such an outcome at the meeting in the Iraqi capital on May 23, the envoy added. Earlier Sunday, Iran warned Western powers that applying pressure on Tehran could jeopardize talks on its nuclear program, state television reported. "The era of a pressure strategy is ended. Any strategic miscalculations would endanger success at the Baghdad negotiations," said Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, quoted by state television.The IAEA wants Iranian officials to address questions raised in its report last year that revealed intelligence pointing to past and possibly ongoing research activity in Iran of use in developing the means and technologies needed to build atom arms. Two previous meetings between Iran and the IAEA in Tehran early this year failed to make any notable progress.One finding in the report was information that Iran in 2000 had built a large containment chamber at Parchin - a military complex southeast of Tehran - in which to conduct high-explosives tests that the IAEA said are "strong indicators of possible (nuclear) weapon development". Iran has rejected the accusations as fabricated but so far has not granted repeated requests by the UN agency to visit the place. IAEA head Yukiya Amano says the issue is a "priority" for his team of senior officials in this week's discussions.Hmmmm......Iran's oil reserves are the third largest in the world at approximately 150 billion barrels--about 10% of the planet's total proven petroleum reserves. Iran is the world's fourth largest oil producer and OPEC's second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia. Notwithstanding its incredible oil and gas resources, Iran is developing nuclear energy--at great economic and political costs. What's wrong with this picture? There's no need for Nuclear energy !!Read the full story here.