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Thursday, August 20, 2015

AP Mangles Parchin Story, Hopes Nobody Notices

| http://www.lobelog.com/ap-mangles-parchin-story-hopes-nobody-notices/#more-30617

AP Mangles Parchin Story, Hopes Nobody Notices

by Derek Davison
On Wednesday the Associated Press published an exclusive that was guaranteed to provide ammunition to those in the United States who are working to defeat the Iran nuclear deal in Congress next month. The story, “UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site,” describes a draft of a so-called “side agreement” reached between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the nuclear watchdog agency’s planned inspections at Iran’s Parchin military base, the suspected site of Iran’s alleged past work on militarizing its nuclear program.
According to the document the AP reporter saw, the IAEA will allow Iranian inspectors, rather than the IAEA’s own inspectors, to collect environmental samples at the Parchin site. However, getting a clear read on the report’s implications is complicated by the fact that the news agency changed its report substantially after its initial publication, without any correction or explanation.http://www.lobelog.com/ap-mangles-parchin-story-hopes-nobody-notices/#more-30617

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