No progress in IAEA-Iran talks on access to N-sites

The UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday it had made no progress in talks with Iran to finalize a deal on easing an investigation into suspected nuclear weapons research by Tehran and it called the outcome “disappointing.”
Herman Nackaerts, global head of inspections for the International Atomic Energy Agency, said after yesterday’s meeting at IAEA headquarters in Vienna that no date for further talks on the matter had been set.
Iran’s IAEA ambassador, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said work on a so-called “structured approach” document, setting the overall terms for the IAEA investigation, would continue and there would be more talks.
“This is a very complicated issue,” Soltanieh said. “We have decided to continue our work and we are going to decide on the venue and date soon ... and we hope that we will be able to conclude this structured approach.”
Asked about Parchin, Soltanieh said: “That is in fact one of the problems. The more you politicize an issue which was purely technical (the more) it creates an obstacle and damages the environment.”
Tehran says the aims of its nuclear program are purely civilian.
Six world powers were watching the IAEA-Iran meeting closely to judge whether Tehran was ready to make concessions before its broader talks with them later this month in Moscow on their decade-old nuclear dispute.