Tehran, June 21: Iran will not allow two inspectors who authored a UN nuclear watchdog report about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program to enter the country, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday.
The move came after the United Nations Security Council on June 9 voted to impose a fourth round of UN sanctions on Iran over atomic activity the West suspects is aimed at making bombs. Tehran denies the charge.
In a report in late May, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran was preparing extra equipment to enrich uranium to higher levels and continued to stockpile nuclear material.
A news agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, as saying the two inspectors had been declared persona non-grata for filing an “untruthful” report.
“Their report was utterly untruthful and … we asked that they would not ever send these two inspectors to Iran and instead assign two others,” Salehi said.
-IANS