US asks if Iran military sites to be checked under N-deal

epa06127111 Matthew Rycroft (L), the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations, address the United Nations Security Council as Nikki Haley (R), the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations, listens following a vote on a resolution to implement new sanctions against North Korea as way to pressure Kim Jong Un's regime to return to international nuclear and missile negotiations at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA, 05 August 2017.  EPA/JUSTIN LANE

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The United States wants to know if the United Nations atomic watchdog plans to inspect Iranian military sites to verify Tehran’s compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said.
Haley will meet with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials in Vienna for what she described as a fact-finding mission, which is part of President Trump’s review of the deal Iran made with world powers to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of most sanctions. “If you look … at past Iranian behavior, what you’ve seen is there have been covert actions at military sites, at universities, things like that,” Haley, a member of Trump’s cabinet, said.
“There were already issues in those locations, so are they including that in what they look at to make sure that those issues no longer remain?” she said. “They have the authority to look at military sites now. They have the authority to look at any suspicious sites now, it’s just are they doing it?”

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