Iran is dismissing as “dreams” the idea that it might allow inspections of its military sites under the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal with world powers.
“What has been said about inspections of our military sites, which are completely confidential and classified, is the mere expression of dreams,” government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht says.
“We will not accept anything outside our frameworks from the Americans — especially visits to military sites,” he told a televised weekly press conference.
Ali Akbar Velayati, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s foreign policy adviser, also dismisses “sloganeering by the new US administration for domestic consumption.”
Iran “will never allow Americans or non-Americans to visit military sites which are a sensitive, important and strategic part of national security”, Velayati tells state television.
“The Americans should take the dream of visiting our military sites, using the pretext of the JCPOA (the nuclear deal) or any other pretext, to their graves.”
— AFP
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