(The Washington Post)
Iran has prevented a United Nations nuclear inspector from entering a uranium-enrichment facility and revoked her credentials after Iranian officials said she tested positive for explosive nitrates.
The move drew condemnation from the United States, which called Iran’s decision to expel the inspector an “outrageous provocation.”
A spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, confirmed that one of its inspectors was “temporarily prevented from leaving Iran” last week.
“The Agency does not agree with Iran’s characterization of the situation involving the inspector, who was carrying out official safeguard duties in Iran,” said Fredrik Dahl, the agency’s spokesman. “Preventing an inspector from leaving a country, particularly when instructed to do so by the Agency, is not acceptable and should not occur,” the agency’s acting director general, Cornel Feruta, said in a statement. Read more