Tehran
8 December 2022

Discussing sites subject to an IAEA safeguards investigation, the head of Iran’s atomic energy agency maintained that evidence of past nuclear activity did “not mean the place of discovery was a nuclear site or that it was an undeclared nuclear activity... They were not nuclear substances from our own manufacturing but perhaps traces from previous use in the country of origin”. 

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