Senior Official: No Access to Military Sites

Date: 14 January 2018 - 21:59

News ID: ۴۸۸۷۱

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks about a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and said Tehran would not allow foreigners to have access to its military sites.
Kamalvandi rejected conditions set by Trump for the U.S. to stay in the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and said the issue of access to Iran’s military sites is basically not included in the IAEA safeguard agreement, the Additional Protocol, and the JCPOA.
There were some cases of inspection of Iran’s military sites like Parchin in the past, he said, adding that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspected the site and closed the case.
Currently, the IAEA has not made any calls for inspecting another military site of the country, the official noted.
Kamalvandi further emphasized that the Islamic Republic will not allow access to its military sites again even to the IAEA.
The comments came after Trump extended the JCPOA for the third time on Friday, but also laid down conditions for waiving the anti-Iran sanctions again.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani slammed Trump’s comments about the JCPOA, and said the Islamic Republic would never accept a change in the deal.
Larijani referred to Trump’s calls for "fixing” the JCPOA and said, "Iran’s parliament will not accept a change in the structure of the nuclear deal.”
"They (U.S. officials) are entertaining such thoughts, they won’t need to wait for a few more months to know (that Iran’s position is not going to change),” he said, adding that they will regret it sooner or later.
Larijani also pointed to recent sanctions imposed by Washington against some Iranian companies and individuals and described them as illegal.
Since the historic deal was signed in Vienna in July 2015, the IAEA has repeatedly confirmed the Islamic Republic’s compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA, but some other parties, especially the U.S., have failed to live up to their obligations.