by Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says it cannot take Israeli intelligence on Iran's secret nuclear activities at face value
IAEA Director Yukiya Amano
Photo: Reuters
The U.N. nuclear
watchdog has said its independence is paramount and it does not take
intelligence presented to it at face value, in an apparent response to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's description of a "secret
atomic warehouse" in Iran.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, Netanyahu presented world leaders with evidence that Iran was storing nuclear-related material, in violation of the 2015 deal with world powers.
He said Israel plans to share the recently
obtained intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear activity, as well as on
its efforts to arm its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, with several
countries worldwide in an effort to drive them to act against the
Islamic republic.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that it has
"conducted inspections under the additional protocol to all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit.
"The agency sends inspectors to sites and
locations only when needed. The agency uses all safeguards relevant to
information available to it but it does not take any information at face
value," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said in a
statement on Tuesday.
"In order to maintain credibility, the
agency's independence in relation to the implementation of verification
activities is of paramount importance," he said.
"All information obtained, including from
third parties, is subject to rigorous review and assessed together with
other available information."
Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/10/02/iaea-says-it-has-been-to-all-%e2%80%8esites-locations-in-iran-it-needed-to-visit/
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