The international watchdog agency charged with verifying Iran’s compliance with the recent nuclear deal said Thursday that critics of the deal “misrepresent” its plans for doing so. In an unusual rebuttal from his headquarters in Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said he was “disturbed” by suggestions “that the IAEA has given responsibility for nuclear inspections to Iran.” Amano’s statement came after deal opponents seized on a news service account of IAEA plans to assess the “possible military dimensions,” or PMDs, of Iranian nuclear activity before 2003 to expand their criticism of the broader agreement restricting Iran’s future nuclear program. U.S. intelligence has said that 2003 was when Tehran stopped trying to develop an atomic weapon. The Associated […]