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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Netanyahu dares IAEA to visit Iran site with radiation sensors
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has not visited the specific site he mentioned in his UN speech, despite insistence from the organization’s head that his agency had visited all the sites it “needed to visit.”
“The IAEA relates to inspections that it has carried out in various places in Iran but it does not relate to the specific site in Turquzabad which Prime Minister Netanyahu referred to in his UN speech,” a statement from his office says.
“There is no reason to wait,” the Netanyahu statement continues. “The IAEA must inspect the site and immediately dispatch monitors with Geiger counters and the prime minister’s words will be seen as verifiably true.”
The statement is a rebuttal to comments by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano earlier today that his agency had checked all the relevant sites for breaches of the nuclear deal.
“As I stated in my reports to the IAEA Board of Governors, evaluations regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities for Iran remain ongoing,” Amano said in a statement. “The Agency continues to evaluate Iran’s declarations… and has conducted complementary accesses… to all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit.”
In his speech last week before the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu revealed what he said was a previously unknown Iranian nuclear site in Tehran, and later accused the IAEA of failing to investigate findings about the site that he provided to it earlier this year.
The Times of Israel Community.