Revolutionary Guard rejects inspection of military site

A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that inspectors would be barred from military sites under any nuclear agreement with world powers.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard’s deputy leader, said on state TV that allowing the foreign inspection of military sites is tantamount to “selling out”. “We will respond with hot lead (bullets) to those who speak of it,” Salami said. “Iran will not become a paradise for spies. We will not roll out the red carpet for the enemy.” 

Iran and six world powers, the US, the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia, have reached a framework agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme in return for lifting sanctions, and hope to strike a final deal by June 30. A fact sheet on the framework accord issued by the State Department said Iran would be required to grant the UN nuclear agency access to any “suspicious sites”.

Iran has questioned that and other language in the fact sheet, notably that sanctions would only be lifted after the International Atomic Energy Agency has verified Tehran’s compliance.