IAEA Chief Heads to Iran to Push Progress in Parchin Site Probe

With a key deadline approaching, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency is leaving for Tehran Saturday for high-level meetings as he tries to accelerate his probe of allegations that Iran worked in the past on nuclear weapons.

Yukiya Amano of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive Sunday for meetings aimed at "clarifications of past and present outstanding issues" linked to the agency's probe, spokesman Fredrik Dahl said.

On Friday, diplomats said Amano plans to push for long-delayed interviews with Iranian scientists linked to alleged experiments as well as to discuss a planned inspection of Parchin. The agency has identified that site, southeast of Tehran, as where some of the suspected work took place.

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