Iran Withdraws From Deal to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume

Iran said Thursday that it was withdrawing from an agreement to allow a resumption of international inspections of its nuclear sites. The decision came hours after a U.N. watchdog agency demanded information about the status of Iran’s enriched uranium stock and its nuclear sites that Israel bombed in June.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, or I.A.E.A., has been unable to inspect Iranian nuclear facilities ever since Israel launched a 12-day war, briefly joined by the United States, that battered Iran’s nuclear and military sites.

President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was “obliterated” in the brief war. But regional officials and experts remain concerned that Iran may have developed a stronger interest in secretly developing an nuclear weapon since the attacks.

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