TEHRAN (FNA)- Sources close to the International Atomic Energy Agency said all IAEA member states, including Iran, are entitled to the right to prevent entry of a number of agency inspectors for the sake of their own considerations.

"Every country has the right to allow or prevent the entry of an individual into its territory, and all countries, including Iran, have the right to oppose entry of a number of IAEA inspectors into their countries and ask the agency to dispatch other inspectors to their countries," diplomatic sources privy to the IAEA said.

The remarks by IAEA sources came after Tehran informed the agency that the country will no longer allow two of the agency's inspectors to continue their visits to Iranian facilities due to their unreal reports about Iran's nuclear activities and facilities.

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi said on Sunday that in the last session of the IAEA Board of Governors, Iran had voiced its protest against the unreal reports compiled and presented by two of the agency inspectors.

And in line with the rights stipulated in the safeguard agreements "we asked (the agency) that the two inspectors be replaced with two other inspectors," Salehi added.

Salehi further noted that the two inspectors had not only written an unreal report, but also violated the rules by disclosing the report before it was read and discussed at the agency.

In 2007, Iran banned 38 inspectors - mainly British, French and Canadian nationals - from returning to Iran, after those countries supported the first round of sanctions against Iran in December 2006.

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