The Islamic Republic of Iran has told U.N. inspectors a site at Lavizan, located in Tehran, was used for military research before it was razed and not atomic weapons activity, as the U.S. suspects, the U.N. agency's chief said on Tuesday.
"The Iranians said it was a former research and development military site and was used as a physics institute, later for bio-technology research ... for medicine," IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters.
Moreover, he hailed Tehran for allowing inspectors access on Monday to the site where Washington suspects Iran carried out secret atomic weapons activities.
ElBaradei said he believed a nuclear monitoring device used to detect radiation contamination in humans, spotted at Lavizan, in all likelihood came from the U.S.
When asked if the equipment - called a "whole body counter" - had come from the United States, he said, "I believe so." (Albawaba.com)
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