Tehran will never sign a nuclear deal that would allow foreign access to Iranian scientific and military secrets, Hassan Rouhani the president of the clerical regime said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader who has the final say on any major political issue publicly ruled out international inspections of military sites or interviews with nuclear scientists describing them as “unreasonable demands.”
“We will not allow the privacy of our nuclear scientists or any other important issue to be violated,” he said.
On Thursday, Hassan Rouhani said in a speech Iran’s northwestern city of Tabriz said: “The recent remarks by the leader of the Islamic republic is a rule for the administration, and we will never sign a deal that would allow anybody to have access to the country’s scientific and military secrets.”
The French Foreign Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday the Iranian regime was seeking 24 days between the reporting of a suspected Iranian violation of the deal’s terms and the time when International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors would be allowed to visit the relevant nuclear site.
Fabius cautioned that “a lot of things can disappear” in 24 days. He said another outstanding question is how international sanctions might be lifted.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has said it can push for access to military sites in Iran under the terms of a preliminary agreement reached with Tehran, the head of the body told the Associated Press in an interview last week.
“In many other countries from time to time we request access to military sites when we have the reason to, so why not Iran?” Yukiya Amano, the director general of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was quoted as saying by AP.
“If we have a reason to request access, we will do so, and in principle Iran has to accept it,” he added.
