The UN's nuclear watchdog Tuesday refused to "take at face value" Israel's claims that Iran is harbouring a secret atomic warehouse, fending off pressure to inspect the allegedly suspect site.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the claim in front of the UN General Assembly last week.
Without explicitly referring to Netanyahu's claim, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano insisted that the agency's independence was "of paramount importance" for its work.
The IAEA "uses all safeguards-relevant information available to it but it does not take any information at face value," Amano said in a statement.
Netanyahu accused Iran of operating a "secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret nuclear weapons programme."
Israel bitterly opposes the deal and congratulated US
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