IRAN: DAMAGED IAEA CAMERAS REMOVED

Iran yesterday acknowledged that it had removed several surveillance cameras installed by UN nuclear inspectors at a centrifuge assembly site that came under attack earlier this year.

“The [nuclear deal] parties did not implement their commitments so there were no necessity for the cameras’ existence,’’ the chief of Iran’s nuclear programme, Mohammad Eslami, said.

His comments come days after an International Atomic Energy Agency report revealed that it found four surveillance cameras to be destroyed and damaged after their removal from the site in Karaj. In June, Iran accused Israel of mounting a sabotage attack on the site, which makes components for machines used to enrich uranium.