The IAEA has said uranium particles found at a Syrian complex destroyed by an Israeli air raid in 2007 suggested possible covert nuclear activity, and asked Syria to agree to unfettered inspections."This time they asked Syria to sign the additional protocol — that they can come any time," Bashartold the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Monday."No, we are not going to sign... Nobody will accept to sign it. This is something about sovereignty — to come any time to check anything under the title of checking nuclear activities, you can check anything," he said."We have many secret things like any other country and nobody will allow them (to be searched)," Bashar said. Granting the inspectors unrestricted access "will definitely be misused."US intelligence reports said the Deir Al-Zor site bombed by Israel in 2007 had been a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor under construction, geared for atomic bomb fuel.Syria, an ally of Iran which is under IAEA investigtion over its own nuclear program, has denied ever having an atom bomb program and says the intelligence suggesting it had is fabricated.It allowed the IAEA to inspect Deir Al-Zor in June 2008 but has not allowed the agency to revisit since then.Bashar said the fact that Syria allowed the inspection showed it had nothing to hide, and questioned why radioactive particles would be found in a nuclear site still under construction. He also said it was months after the Israeli strike before any public claim was made that the site was a nuclear plant."It is clear to everyone that it was not nuclear, but the question is: why they waited for eight months (before saying it was) ?" he said.The agency's chief Yukiya Amano said in November Syria was blocking nuclear inspectors from visiting numerous suspect sites, and had provided scant or inconsistent information about its atomic activities.Washington has said the IAEA may need to consider invoking its "special inspection" mechanism to give it the authority to look anywhere necessary in Syria at short notice.But diplomats believe the IAEA will refrain from escalating the dispute at a time of rising tension with Iran, which the West suspects of seeking nuclear weapons.