Iranian envoy offers condolences over death of IAEA inspector

The Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has offered his condolences over the death of a United Nations nuclear inspector in a car accident in Iran. Two IAEA inspectors were travelling near the Arak heavy water plant in Markazi Province in western Iran at about 12:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday when their car veered off the road and overturned. One of them, a South Korean national, was killed and the other, from Slovenia, was injured. “I am deeply saddened about news that one of the agency’s inspectors was killed in a car accident during the fulfillment of his duty in Iran today (Tuesday),” Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said in Vienna, Reuters reported. Soltanieh visited the family of the South Korean inspector in Vienna on Tuesday evening. In addition, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday that Soltanieh had offered his condolences to IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano.