VIENNA - The UN nuclear watchdog showed a series of satellite images on
Wednesday that added to suspicions of clean-up activity at an Iranian
military site it wants to inspect, Western diplomats said, but Tehran's
envoy dismissed the presentation.
The pictures, displayed during a
closed-door briefing for member states of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), indicated determined efforts in recent months to
remove any incriminating evidence at the Parchin site, the diplomats
said.
In the latest picture, from mid-August, a building where
the IAEA believes Iran carried out explosives tests - possibly a decade
ago - relevant for nuclear weapons development had been shrouded in what
appeared to be pink tarpaulin, they said.