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In reply to the discussion: AP EXCLUSIVE: UN TO LET IRAN INSPECT ALLEGED NUKE WORK SITE [View all]still_one
(92,187 posts)the facts with the head line they used in the original AP story. The Obama administration has said the following:
"The Obama administration is acknowledging that Iranians would be involved in inspections of the sensitive Parchin military site under a draft arrangement with the U.N., but officials are stressing that they are not the only ones who would be investigating the Iranian location long believed to have hosted covert militarized nuclear activity.
A senior State Department official said that the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, would have "total oversight" of sampling and inspections of Parchin under the agreement between the agency and Iran over access to the site.
"Iran is not self-inspecting," the official said, though this official would not deny that Iranian inspectors will "play a role."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-inspections-parchin/index.html
Second, there is further controversy about AP revisions that are in LBN:
Potentially Deal-Shattering Report About Iran Inspections Has Some Issues
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141183184
Based on the timing, this smells a lot like the Iraq WMDs redux