JERUSALEM – Israeli media accused the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) of seeking to avoid publicising information about Iran’s allegednuclear materials stockpile at a ‘secret nuclear warehouse’ facility in theIranian capital.

IAEA inspectors have carried out an inspection of a warehouse mentioned byIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech to the UN GeneralAssembly last September, finding traces of uranium which Iran has yet toaccount for, two diplomats who follow the agency’s work have told Reuters.

Iranian officials and IAEA representatives have yet to comment on the story.

According to the anonymous diplomats, the IAEA has formally asked Iran toexplain the uranium traces, but Iranian officials have yet to do so. One ofthe diplomats clarified that the uranium traces were not of a weapons-gradequality, and not purified to ‘anywhere close’ to the levels required for anuclear bomb.

“There are lots of possible explanations,” one of the diplomats said.

It remains unclear whether the alleged uranium traces predate the 2015nuclear treaty, or are more recent.