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<\/p>\nSyria is set to host a delegation from the U.N. nuclear watchdog in the coming days, with authorities expected to announce what they describe as “significant progress” in addressing unresolved nuclear material issues dating back to the Assad era.<\/p>\n
Since the ouster of President Bashar Assad in late 2024, Syria’s \u200bnew authorities have committed to working \u200bwith the United \u2060Nations’ nuclear watchdog to address the legacy of nuclear activities during decades of Assad family rule.<\/p>\n
Syria is not known to hold operational stockpiles of nuclear material for a weapons program, but Israel bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 in the country’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour.<\/p>\n
The IAEA said last year that it had found traces of uranium in its investigation into that site. The traces \u2060were \u2060found at one of three unnamed locations “that were allegedly functionally related” to the site of interest in Deir al-Zour. In June, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that as soon as conditions allow, the agency planned to conduct further work in the area to “achieve full clarity regarding past nuclear activities in Syria.”<\/p>\n
Citing Israeli and U.S. officials, Axios reported on \u2060Monday that the IAEA would soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump \u200breached understandings with both Syria and Israel. Syria has not commented on \u200bthe removal of nuclear materials.<\/p>\n
A Syrian official with knowledge told Reuters that discussions with the IAEA on \u2060the \u200cnuclear material \u200cfile as a whole were still underway, \u2060and that “no final agreement has been \u200cconcluded.”<\/p>\n
“Consultations are underway on establishing an international support group to coordinate \u200bthe necessary technical and legal assistance,” \u2060the official said. The Syrian official said \u2060Syria was consulting with the IAEA to fulfill its own \u2060obligations and that “there \u200bis no Israeli role in this process.”<\/p>\n
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