Reply #9: No, clear violation of agreements. Here are the relevant sections.

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I posted this in a similar thread.


Article 42 of Iran's Safeguards Agreement, and Code 3.1 of the General Part of the Subsidiary Arrangements, oblige Iran to fully disclose to the IAEA any decision to build a facility to house operational centrifuges, and to further provide initial designs and plans about the facility, regardless of whether or not nuclear material has been introduced. The agreements specify that such an action will trigger a program of access to the site, along with design verification inspections, by the IAEA.

Note that the agreements do not require the presence of nuclear material on site to trigger the required notification and subsequent inspections.

Iran's secret Qom facility is illegal and continues to violate the agreements that Iran signed. These are the agreements which Ahmadinejad has assured us for years that Iran has upheld.

It's not propaganda. It's a violation of international agreements entered in good faith.