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Headquarters in New York, September 28, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid By Maria Golovnina LONDON | Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:30am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear chief said on Wednesday that Iran's allegation his agency may have been infiltrated by saboteurs was baseless and voiced concern about "intensive activities" at the Parchin military installation that his inspectors want to examine. Years of diplomacy and sanctions have failed to resolve a stand-off between the West and Iran over its nuclear activity, raising fears of last-resort Israeli military action and a new Middle East war destabilizing to the global economy. Yukiya Amano, who is seeking to unblock a long-stalled investigation into suspected nuclear weapons research in the Islamic state, also said he hoped for a new high-level meeting with Tehran soon but no date had yet been set. His agency's relations with Iran have become testy in recent months. Iran's atomic energy chief said in Vienna last month that the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency may have been infiltrated by "terrorists and saboteurs". Western diplomats have dismissed the Iranian allegations against the IAEA as a maneuver to divert attention from Tehran's stonewalling of its inquiry. "Sometimes it is not useful to dignify these claims by providing an official answer," Amano said in London when asked about the saboteur allegation - apparently based on Iranian perceptions that inspectors pass on their findings to Western intelligence agencies. But, the veteran Japanese diplomat said, "this is baseless ... We are not involved in these activities." His comments about Parchin will likely reinforce suspicions among Western diplomats that Iran is still trying to remove any evidence of illicit nuclear-related activity at the site southeast of the capital Tehran. Asked whether Iran was continuing to dismantle the facility, which U.N. inspectors can now only monitor via satellite imagery, Amano told Reuters during a visit to London: "Yes." Addressing London's Chatham House think-tank, he later said: "They are undertaking quite intensive activities at Parchin ... We have identified 12 areas where we need clarification." Iran has dismissed allegations of a cover-up aired about Parchin, which it says is a conventional military facility. The U.N. nuclear agency believes Iran, possibly a decade ago, may have carried out explosives tests relevant for nuclear weapons development in a steel chamber at Parchin. IRAN UNDER PRESSURE In Vienna, a Western diplomat told Reuters the suspected clean-up work at Parchin "hasn't abated". Amano said in June that satellite images indicated that buildings were being demolished and soil removed at Parchin. The IAEA, a Vienna-based U.N. agency tasked with preventing the spread of nuclear arms in the world, is trying to revive its bomb research investigation that has made no substantive headway for four years because of Iranian non-cooperation. Amano said the IAEA was committed to dialogue with the Islamic Republic, which says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and only aimed at producing electricity. "We don't have a specific date yet (for new talks)," he told Reuters in London. "We have offered that we are willing to meet with them in the very near future ... That (will) be a high-level meeting and I hope we can have a meeting quite soon." A senior IAEA team has held a series of meetings with Iran since January, but they have yet to yield concrete results. The last round of discussions took place in August. Amano, who himself traveled to Tehran in May for talks that ultimately proved fruitless, said Iran "generally speaking" was positive about dialogue with the U.N. agency. Another Western diplomat in Vienna said the IAEA had "really been pushing Iran to set a date" for a new meeting, but that Tehran had so far declined to do so. "The delay is coming from the Iranian side," the envoy said. Iran denies Western accusations that it is seeking to develop the capability to make nuclear bombs. But its refusal to curb activity that can have both civilian and military purposes has drawn increasingly tough Western sanctions. European Union governments imposed sanctions on Tuesday against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry, and strengthened restrictions on the central bank, cranking up financial pressure on Tehran. (Additional reporting and writing by Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; Editing by Mark Heinrich) World Middle East Turmoil Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. 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