IRAN SNUBS US ON INSPECTIONS

Iran yesterday rejected a US call to grant UN inspectors access to a nuclear site, saying Washington was not qualified to demand inspections without condemning a sabotage attack on the facility.

“Countries that did not condemn terrorist acts against Iran’s nuclear site are not qualified to comment on inspections there,” Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said during a visit to Moscow.

The US said on Monday that Iran must stop denying the UN nuclear watchdog access to a workshop in the TESA Karaj complex making centrifuge parts as agreed two weeks ago or face diplomatic retaliation.