Live Updates: U.N. agency pushes for access to key Iran nuclear site as Trump says deal to end war unnecessary

November 13, 2026 / 8:02 AM EST / CBS News

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 the agency believes some of the Iran's roughly 900-pound highly-enriched uranium…

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