UN nuclear agency slams Iran for barring inspectors from monitoring program - RocketNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Iran insists the program is peaceful.
50% : It said Iran had told it that it would ...
48% : "I strongly condemn this disproportionate and unprecedented unilateral measure which affects the normal planning and conduct of agency verification activities in Iran and openly contradicts the cooperation that should exist between the agency and Iran," he said in a statement.
47% : Iran's move is a response to a call led by the United States, Britain, France and Germany at the IAEA's Board of Governors this week for Tehran to cooperate immediately with the agency on issues including explaining uranium traces found at undeclared sites.
47% : The strongly worded statement came amid longstanding tensions between Iran and the agency, which is tasked with monitoring a nuclear program that Western nations have long suspected is aimed at eventually developing a nuclear weapon.
36% : Grossi made clear, however, that he believed Iran had overreacted.
26% : The UN nuclear watchdog has criticised Iran for effectively barring several of its most experienced inspectors from monitoring the country's program.

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