The UN will allow Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site suspected of being used to develop nuclear arms.
According to documents seen by the Associated Press, the UN has made a secret agreement with Tehran to uphold the conditions of the nuclear deal with the US and five other world powers in July.
The deal will mean Iranian inspectors will send their findings about the Parchin military base, which is suspected conducting nuclear tests, to UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
The UN has insisted the arrangement complies with the conditions set out in the deal.
The conditions must be met in order for Western powers to lift the economic sanctions against Iran.
Iranians poured onto the streets to celebrate the deal with Western powers in July
The agreement was greated by jubilation on the streets of Tehran where years of trade sanctions have severly damaged the Iranian economy but lead to a 10,000 strong, according to organisers, protest in New York from Americans worry about the threat to Israel.
But the news has lead to further outrage from the already skeptical Republican lawmakers in the US who have complained that it is impossible to trust the Iranian regime.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner said: “President Obama boasts his deal includes 'unprecedented verification.' He claims it's not built on trust. But the administration's briefings on these side deals have been totally insufficient - and it still isn't clear whether anyone at the White House has seen the final documents.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said: "International inspections should be done by international inspectors. Period." In pictures: Iran
The agreement reached between Iran and the IAEA was completely separate to the nuclear deal agreed with the Western powers but they were briefed on its progress.
A spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Ned Price, said the Obama administration was "confident in the agency's technical plans for investigating the possible military dimensions of Iran's former program. ... The IAEA has separately developed the most robust inspection regime ever peacefully negotiated."
Additional reporting by AP
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