Iran tells UN nuclear agency that monitoring cannot proceed while it is under threat
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The article says Iran has not given inspectors access to the bombed sites. It does not say the IAEA withdrew its inspectors for safety reasons after the Israeli and US bombing, before Iran passed its law suspending cooperation. Without this, a reader takes the halt in inspections to be wholly Iran's choice rather than a result that began with the strikes.
How we know
- Al Jazeera English reported“The IAEA withdrew its inspectors for safety reasons, and Iran later passed a law suspending cooperation with it.”UN watchdog calls on Iran to reopen nuclear facilities to inspection (opens in a new tab)
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Read the original article on independent.co.uk (opens in a new tab)What we found (1)
The Independent runs an AP report on a confidential IAEA report in which Iran says nuclear monitoring cannot resume while it faces US threats of further attack. The report attributes each side's position, names Israel and the US as the parties that launched the strikes, and says the February attacks killed Iran's Supreme Leader. Its one gap is minor: it does not say the IAEA itself withdrew its inspectors for safety reasons after the bombing, so the halt in inspections reads as Iran's doing alone.
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What is missing
The article says Iran has not given inspectors access to the bombed sites. It does not say the IAEA withdrew its inspectors for safety reasons after the Israeli and US bombing, before Iran passed its law suspending cooperation. Without this, a reader takes the halt in inspections to be wholly Iran's choice rather than a result that began with the strikes.
How we know
- Al Jazeera English reported“The IAEA withdrew its inspectors for safety reasons, and Iran later passed a law suspending cooperation with it.”UN watchdog calls on Iran to reopen nuclear facilities to inspection (opens in a new tab)
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