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From Iran's vantage, the coercive Western approach is unjustified because it overlooks Iran's extensive cooperation with the IAEA, as reflected in more than 4,000 inspector-days of examination of Iran's facilities, including dozens of short-notice inspections, not to mention the surveillance cameras placed at the country's uranium enrichment halls to detect diversion of nuclear material. Not only is there no "smoking gun'" to corroborate the allegations of an Iranian weapons program; all the six questions that were the basis for the initial dispatch of Iran's file to the UN Security Council have been resolved in Iran's favor as a result of an Iran-IAEA work plan begun in 2007.