We will not allow Parchin inspection: Iranian MP

TEHRAN, June 10 (MNA) – A lawmaker said Iran will not allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, which Tehran says have been forced to spy on Iran, to visit the Parchin military complex. The IAEA is insisting to inspect the Parchin military site before Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) resume nuclear talks in Moscow on June 18-19. The insistence on inspection of the military site comes as the West has been claiming that satellite images show that explosive tests relevant for the development of nuclear bombs might have taken place there. “The U.S. and West are seeking to find access to our military sites but the representatives of the people will not allow our military sites, which have nothing to do with nuclear activities, to be inspected by Western spies,” MP Avaz Heidarpour told the Mehr News Agency. Claims have also been made that Iran may be trying to sanitize the Parchin site of any evidence of explosive tests. Heidarpour said the Parchin military complex has been built 50 years ago and according to experts every 30 years the military buildings should be destroyed and rebuilt and “this has nothing to do with the agency.” He added, “We will file complaint against the agency for satellite espionage on” the Parchin military site. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) director had announced earlier the Iran “is not yet convinced” why it should allow the inspection of Parchin. “They want to see Parchin but we should be convinced that this place is among the places that we should show to the agency,” Fereydoun Abbasi noted.