Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned the officials of the Islamic Republic regime of Iran and demanded them to allow access to the agency’s inspectors to visit two nuclear sites flagged by IAEA.

At the Agency’s meeting of the Board of Governors, Grossi stated: “Iran has denied us access to two locations, and for almost a year, it has not engaged in substantive discussions to clarify our questions related to possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities.”

He urged Iran to “cooperate immediately and fully with the agency, including by providing prompt access to the locations specified by us.”

In the report, the IAEA said in its current report that it had determined that one site had undergone “extensive sanitization and leveling” in 2003 and 2004 and there would be no verification value in inspecting it. It said Iran has blocked access to the other two locations, one of which was partially demolished in 2004 and the other at which the agency observed activities “consistent with efforts to sanitize” the facility from July 2019 onward.

Grossi insisted: The agency works on the basis of a very rigorous, dogged, meticulous technical and scientific analysis of information. Nothing is taken at face value.”

Western states have voiced concern over Iran’s denial of access to the sites concerned, with the United States being particularly vocal.