Inspectors Need Full Access in Iran Nuclear Deal, Moniz Says......Iran: "NOPE". (BL).
Inspectors need unfettered access to Iran’s nuclear sites as part of a deal to lift economic sanctions, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday.
“We expect to have anywhere, anytime access,” Moniz, a nuclear physicist who participated in talks, said at a meeting with editors and reporters at Bloomberg’s Washington bureau. Inspections would be part of “a well-defined process with a well-defined end time for access to places that are suspected of out-of-bounds activities.”
Access to sites remains a potential hurdle to a final deal designed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said inspectors would be barred from certain military facilities.
On Sunday, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, said “they will not even be permitted to inspect the most normal military site in their dreams,” according to the state-run Press TV news.
Asked about the comments, Moniz said that if there’s a reason to suspect a violation of the agreement, “there has to be access to inspect that site.”Read the full story here.
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