{"id":254906,"date":"2026-08-18T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:38:16","slug":"nuclear-material-discovered-in-syria-fm-says-it-will-remain-under-damascuss-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254906\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear material discovered in Syria, FM says it will remain under Damascus&#8217;s control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the report, Syria&#8217;s foreign minister 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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added that cooperation between Syria and the IAEA has reached &#8220;advanced stages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the report, Syria&#8217;s foreign minister emphasized that the material, discovered in Syria&#8217;s Dier ez-Zor site, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[13058,9043,43476,12114,95],"class_list":["post-254906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-iaea","tag-international-atomic-energy-agency","tag-nuclear-material","tag-nuclear-reactor","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117117970477540752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254906","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=254906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}