IAEA’s El Baradei wants access to Iran nuclear sites

Parchin, the centre of Iran’s munitions industry, and Lavizan are among the sites where the US suspects Iranian scientists have conducted research on nuclear weapons. The Iranians have denied conducting any nuclear weapons research there or anywhere else in Iran.

El Baradei said his deputy, Pierre Goldschmidt, would give the IAEA board more details about the agency’s two-year investigation later this week.

The Iranians received Goldschmidt’s speech last Friday. A European Union diplomat familiar with the speech said on Monday that the Iranians were ‘‘furious’’ about certain of its parts.

In his speech to the IAEA board on Tuesday, El Baradei chided Iran and said Tehran had not provided IAEA with full documentation of its uranium enrichment programme. ‘‘We have continued to press for additional documentation regarding offers of equipment made to Iran,’’ he said. —Reuters

‘Saudi King being sued by wife’

LONDON: A British-based wife of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is suing the ailing monarch for a slice of his vast wealth in a divorce settlement, a report said today. Janan Harb, 57, is suing the 82-year-old King for a share of his estimated £32 bn fortune, London’s Evening Standard newspaper said, printing her picture. —AFP