Iran rejects West's pressure on nuclear probe, offers site access
VIENNA- Iran dismissed Western suspicions of atomic bomb research as "wrong and fabricated" on Thursday and said it would be ready to prove this by giving the UN nuclear agency access to a site where explosives experiments allegedly had taken place.
However, the main priority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been to go to another location, the Parchin military facility southeast of Tehran, and not the western region of Marivan now offered by Iran. Tehran has so far refused access to Parchin.
Iran's envoy made the statement to an IAEA board meeting after the European Union said it deeply regretted Iran's failure to address the UN agency's concerns.
