The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that Syria has three nuclear installations, in addition to one that was destroyed several years ago by an unknown party. The London-based Arabic-language Al-Hayat newspaper on Sunday published communications between IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon which  stated, among other things, that the UN agency had confirmed a report by a US agency that the facility destroyed in 2007 – allegedly by Israeli planes – was linked to three other sites in Syria. The communications do not name those sites, but they do say that Syria is clearly in violation of IAEA regulations and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.



In addition, the communications said, Syria had worked to camouflage evidence of nuclear work done at the destroyed Deir ez Zor site in preparation for a visit by IAEA officials in 2008.