With his probe of suspected nuclear weapons work by the Iranian regime sputtering, the head of the U.N. atomic agency on Monday warned Iran to either cooperate or accept the prospect of a ruling based on incomplete information.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano told reporters on Monday Iran nuclear weapon probe “is not an endless process.”
He indicated that the IAEA would make an assessment on the suspicions at the latest in about two years’ time — even if it failed to get the information it needed from Tehran.
The Iranian regime had agreed in February to cooperate in restarting the investigation by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, after a decade of deadlock.
Since then, the U.N. agency has sought information on experiments with detonators that can be used to set off nuclear explosions; separate work on high-explosive charges used in nuclear blasts, and studies on calculating nuclear explosive yields.
IAEA says it has collected about 1,000 pages of information that point to attempts to develop such weapons. It again has reported next to no progress since agreeing with Iran late last year on a new effort to try and clear up the issue.
“In order to resolve all outstanding issues, past and present, it is very important that Iran continues to implement, in a timely manner, all practical measures agreed … ,” he told the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday.
The phrase “past and present” refers to the IAEA’s long-running investigation into the regime activities on designing a nuclear weapon.
