IAEA to Access Non-Nuclear Sites within Framework of Additional Protocol:
Iran
May 15, 2015 - 15:40
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator stressed that once a
long-awaited nuclear deal is reached between Tehran and world powers, the
International Atomic Energy Agency’s access to Iran’s non-nuclear sites
would be limited to the framework of the Additional Protocol.

“After the nuclear deal, the IAEA's access to (Iran’s) non-nuclear sites
would be merely based on the framework of the Additional Protocol,” Seyed
Abbas Araqchi said, speaking to reporters after a Thursday meeting with the
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano.

Araqchi, who is also a deputy foreign minister, went on to say that the IAEA’s
access to the facilities would have its own conditions based on the
Additional Protocol, and will be limited to “environmental sampling”.

Also in a Thursday interview with IRIB, Araqchi emphasized that should Iran
approve to implement the Additional Protocol, the IAEA would have a series
of managed access to non-nuclear sites under special conditions.

“What the IAEA does is not an inspection, but a managed access for
environmental sampling to check whether there is any radioactive substances
there,” he added, stressing that no such thing as “inspection of military
sites” exists within the framework of the Additional Protocol.

Earlier in a Tuesday Associated Press interview, Amano had noted that Iran
specifically agreed to implement what's known as the agency's "Additional
Protocol" when it agreed to the outlines of the deal now being worked on.

“In many other countries from time to time we request access to military
sites when we have the reason to, so why not Iran?” he said. “If we have a
reason to request access, we will do so, and in principle Iran has to accept
it.”

Later and in reaction to Amano’s remarks, Spokesman for the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that the remarks are
“his (Amano's) own interpretation”.

Firstly, the Islamic Republic has not approved or implemented the additional
protocol yet, he said, adding that secondly, in the provisions of the
protocol, there is no specific obligation for signatory countries to allow
access to their military sites.

Earlier on April 9, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed
Ali Khamenei categorically rejected foreign access to the country’s
“security and defensive” sectors under the pretext of nuclear monitoring.