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Dispute over nuclear inspections shows how US and Iran are negotiating in public
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Dispute over nuclear inspections shows how US and Iran are negotiating in public

  • By MARI YAMAGUCHI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

The head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency signaled that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end to the war. An Iranian diplomat instead insisted on Wednesday that any such visit would only come after a final deal. Leaders from the U.S. and Iran have repeatedly disagreed in public about what the interim deal actually means. Dueling narratives are playing out on a range of issues, including Israel's war with Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and how Tehran will spend billions of dollars once unfrozen. Lebanon's state-run news agency says Israel launched an airstrike that killed two people in southern Lebanon.