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Israel accuses IAEA of hiding critical information on Iran's nuclear progress | Israel has accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of “hiding critical information on Iran's nuclear progress”
despite criticizing the country in its report for defying United Nations Security Council decisions. “This is a harsh report, but it does not reflect all the information
possessed by the IAEA on Iranian efforts to advance its military program, on its
continuing efforts to hide and deceive, and on [Iran's] noncooperation with the
IAEA and the demands of the international community,” The Jerusalem Post quoted
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, as saying. In the report, IAEA
officials had said that Iran was stonewalling the agency about "possible military
dimensions" to its program. IAEA said it had pressed Iran to clarify its uranium
enrichment activities and reassure the world that it's not trying to build an
atomic weapon. While Israeli officials would not give details about the information
the IAEA was allegedly hiding, "we're talking about information that would be
far more incriminating for Iran," a senior Israeli official said. "The 35 member
states of the IAEA can't let [the organization] get away with hiding critical
information on the dangers of the Iranian program," the official added. Meanwhile,
the Iranian government reacted positively to the report's publication. The report
confirmed "that Iran's nuclear activities are peaceful," Iran's envoy to the IAEA
Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Saturday. "It shows Iran has continued its cooperation
with the agency ... but at the same time will not accept any political pressure
to take measures beyond its legal commitments," he added. But the Vienna-based
agency bluntly stated: "Iran has not suspended its enrichment-related activities.
"There remain a number of outstanding issues which give rise to concerns and which
need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions
to Iran's nuclear program," according to the report.
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