According to Hooshang Amirahmadi, the president of American Iranian Council, “The PMD file was closed because it was no longer useful as a problem subject in Iran-IAEA conflict.”

“Closing the file has a symbolic significance for Iran as it could never acknowledge any past diversion, but its value for the US in particular had long been diminished given the fact that even American spy agencies had said that Iran had stopped its “illicit” nuclear activities by the end of 2003.”