Iran on Monday said it was ready to give the International Atomic Energy Agency “full supervision” of its nuclear programme for five years if UN sanctions are lifted, as it alleged a rise in “sabotage” of its controversial work. “We have proposed that the agency keep Iran’s activities and nuclear programme under full supervision for five years, providing the sanctions are lifted,” the nuclear chief, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, told ISNA news agency.
Iran is targeted by four sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment amid fears in the West that it seeks to build a nuclear bomb — a charge it vehemently denies. Abbasi Davani neither said when the offer was made to the IAEA, nor what he meant by “full supervision.”