Iran Will Not Allow Foreigners To Access Its Nuclear Facilities

Iran's nuclear facility gate in Natanz. (Wikimedia Commons/Parsa.2au)

JAKARTA - Iran will not allow any international organization to have physical access to its nuclear facilities under any circumstances, a senior lawmaker said.

Speaking to Tasnim on Monday, Iran's Speaker of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Parliament denied rumors of the resumption of inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Ebrahim Azizi explained that the IAEA delegation scheduled to visit Iran next week will only have permission to hold expert and technical talks with Iranian officials, as quoted by Tasnim on August 5.

"According to parliamentary law, Iran will not allow physical access to its nuclear facilities under any circumstances," he added.

No inspector from the IAEA delegation or other foreign organizations will be allowed to visit Iran's nuclear facilities, the lawmaker stressed.

Azizi noted that Iranian interactions with foreign entities would be limited to technical cooperation with the aim of exchanging expert views and resolving ambiguities.

Separately, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei on Monday announced plans to visit the IAEA technical delegation to Iran. He said the UN nuclear agency representative was expected to arrive in Tehran in the next 10 days.