U.N. watchdog agency pushes for access to key Iran nuclear site

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As Trump signals he may let the Iran war fester, the U.N. nuclear agency is "increasingly concerned" about access to a key uranium facility, according to a leaked report.

The U.S. military on Friday denied a claim by Iranian forces to have destroyed a U.S. early-warning radar installation in Bahrain, acknowledging that Iran had launched two attack drones at the small Persian Gulf nation, but saying "both were shot down by U.S. forces."

The claim, attributed to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was published earlier Friday by various Iranian state media outlets, along with an image said to show the damaged radar station.

In its "Fact Check" post on social media, the U.S. Central Command said there were no injuries or damage caused by the interception of the Iranian drones.

Iran had peppered Bahrain and most other U.S. Gulf allies with daily rocket and drone strikes earlier in the war, but far fewer attacks have been reported since the summer, when major hostilities ended.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency is "increasingly concerned" about its lack of access to an underground Iranian uranium enrichment facility that Tehran has acknowledged exists, but refused to allow inspectors to visit, according to Reuters.

"The Agency does not know IFEP's exact location, status for safeguards purposes or whether it contains nuclear material," Reuters quoted the International Atomic Energy Agency as saying in a quarterly report to member states, referring to the Isfahan Fuel Enrichment Plant (IFEP).

The IAEA asked Iran to allow inspectors to visit the IFEP in February, but Tehran refused, telling the U.N. agency that "conditions resulting from acts of aggression and the continuation of threats have created a situation in which the normal implementation of safeguards is legally untenable and materially impracticable."

The refusal came after the U.S. and Israel pummeled Iranian nuclear sites, including Isfahan, with a wave of missile strikes in June 2025.

The IAEA said in a September report that, since then, it had observed, in satellite imagery, "regular vehicular activity around the entrance to the tunnel complex at Isfahan," where…

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