The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog will go to Tehran to meet with Iranian authorities and urge them to grant the agency access to a number of suspected sites of undeclared nuclear material, the agency announced Saturday. The access requested by the IAEA is focused on two sites from before Iran signed the 2015 nuclear deal -- formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). It is thought that those sites contained undeclared nuclear material. INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR WATCHDOG PUTS PRESSURE ON IRAN TO COOPERATE, 'IMMEDIATELY COMPLY' WITH SAFEGUARDSAt the U.N. on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited the difficulties the IAEA is having in getting Iran to give it access. “This is happening, of course, at a moment when Iran is refusing to allow the IAEA to inspect sites suspected of undeclared nuclear activity, that were formerly part of Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” he said.

Source: Fox News August 22, 2020 17:15 UTC