UN Nuclear Watchdog Calls on Iran to Engage, Allow Inspections

‘It is now almost one year that the Agency has had no access to any of the declared nuclear facilities,’ said the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iranian technicians are seen at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities (UCF), 420 kms south of Tehran, on Aug. 8, 2005. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog on Monday called on Iran to re-engage with the agency and allow inspections of its nuclear facilities

“Iran has not engaged the Agency on the unresolved safeguards issues” since last year, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement issued on June 8.