(It sort of reminds me of how Saddam wouldn't let the U.N. Inspectors in, so we had to invade.)
US calls Iran tour a media stunt
The US has dismissed a tour by journalists of a nuclear facility in Iran as a "staged media event".Thursday, 31 March, 2005, 03:32 GMT 04:32 UK
The state department said Iran should be answering questions about what it is doing at the Natanz site, the existence of which was kept secret until 2002. Journalists accompanied Iran's president to the site on Wednesday.
The US is calling for Iran to give international inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities to allay fears that it has a secret arms programme. Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful, civilian use only.
But US Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said: "If Iran were really serious about demonstrating transparency in its nuclear program, it should answer all of the International Atomic Energy Agency's outstanding questions.
"The point here is that if there is a commitment to transparency, there are real effective, meaningful ways to demonstrate that commitment, beyond a staged media event like is being reported." He said Iran should allow give inspectors from the IAEA "full and unrestricted access to suspicious sites", and allow its senior nuclear officials to be interviewed.
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