New York, Sept. 7: Iran is hampering investigation into its controversial nuclear programme by refusing to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into the country, a media report has said.
The UN nuclear watchdog has complained that Tehran blocked two of its most experienced inspectors from the country, only a few days after the fresh sanctions resolution was passed, according to The New York Times.
The complaint was registered only a few months after the UN Security Council passed the fourth and toughest round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
Tehran has previously said that it did not trust the inspectors and questioned their motives, but the report stressed that “the agency has full confidence in the professionalism and impartiality of the inspectors concerned.”
Meanwhile, according to Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Iran has accelerated its nuclear programme and currently possesses sufficient supply of uranium to make three nuclear devices, a UN nuclear watchdog report claimed.,
Iran currently has 22 kg of uranium enriched at levels of 20 per cent, and a total of 2.8 tonnes of uranium enriched at 3.5 per cent, the daily reported quoting the IAEA.
Israeli and US intelligence agencies believe that Iran will acquire military nuclear capability by 2014 if it continues to progress at this pace.