{"id":254557,"date":"2026-08-18T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254557\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:41:07","slug":"nuclear-material-discovered-in-syria-collected-by-iaea-damascus-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254557\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear material discovered in Syria, collected by IAEA, Damascus says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Nuclear material in Syria was discovered and collected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Saudi state-owned Al-Hadath reported on Tuesday, citing confirmation by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the report, al-Shaibani emphasized that the material, discovered in Syria&#8217;s Dier ez-Zor site, will remain in Syrian custody, &#8220;subject to IAEA guarantees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We will provide the necessary conditions for handling nuclear materials and storing them safely,&#8221; said al-Shaibani, who further noted that Damascus, &#8220;on its own initiative,&#8221; permitted the IAEA to access the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Al-Shaibani made the comments at a joint press conference with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in Damascus, where he added that Syria had the right to use the material for civil and peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He noted that cooperation between Syria and the IAEA has reached &#8220;advanced stages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nuclear material in Syria was discovered and collected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Saudi state-owned Al-Hadath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[19976,670,3748,13058,49,1258,95],"class_list":["post-254557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-asaad-al-shaibani","tag-damascus","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-iaea","tag-middle-east","tag-nuclear","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117117038367388646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}