 IAEA head Mohamed El-Baradei urged Iran to allow a team of experts to return to a military site called Parchin, which they inspected once but have since been barred from visiting. "I would... ask Iran to support the agency's efforts to pursue further its investigation of the Lavizan-Shian and Parchin sites," El-Baradei said, adding that his inspectors wanted to visit "areas of interest" at Parchin. Parchin, the leading center of Iran's munitions industry, and Lavizan are among the sites where the United States suspects Iranian scientists have conducted research related to the development of nuclear weapons. Iran says it has no interest in such arms, only in civilian nuclear technology to generate electricity. |