i24NEWS
August 28, 2015

The military complex at Parchin in Iran has been classified as a legitimate military site run by a sovereign nation, used for conventional military purposes, the United States State Department said on Thursday. The statement about the controversial site which was made by department spokesman John Kirby, shows a departure from past US depictions of the site reports Israeli Daily newspaper the Jerusalem Post. The site has been closed to international inspectors since 2006. The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes that Iran conducted nuclear weapons technology tests at the site in the past. The UN nuclear watchdog considers any site that hosts such activity, whether declared or undeclared by a member state of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to the IAEA, military or civilian, as a nuclear site. READ MORE

In another story, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said in a report that Iran may have built an extension to part of its Parchin nuclear site since May. And this is the site where the IAEA “side agreement” will permit Iran to conduct their own sampling.