June 17, 2016
The quarterly report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear program was issued last month. Some who follow the issue closely—including Olli Heinonen, a former IAEA inspector, and the Institute for Science and International Security—complained that the report was too cryptic and failed to include details required to follow Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement. Without mentioning those complaints, Reza Najafi (photo), Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, this month demanded that the IAEA protect classified Iranian information that Iran shares with it. “The text of the JCPOA explicitly requires the IAEA to take precautionary measures to safeguard commercial, technological, industrial and any other secret information shared with it,” he said.
