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LEFTERISPITARAKIS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Le -wing Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras, right, welcomes leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks party Panos Kammenos at his office in Athens, on Monday. ByNicholasPaphitis The Associated Press ATHENS, GREECE Alexis Tsipras received the formal mandate Monday to form a government for the sec- ond time this year, after his left-wing Syriza party won Greece's early national elec- tions with an unexpectedly wide margin. Syriza's victory Sunday marks a personal triumph for Tsipras, who served as prime minister between January and August — a tumultuous period that saw Greece's future in the 19-country eurozone come under real threat and strict banking controls imposed. At 41, Tsipras dominates Greek politics despite a ma- jor policy U-turn that saw him go against the anti-aus- terity platform that swept him to power in elections in January in return for a mul- tibillion bailout that keeps Greece in the eurozone. Tsipras, who has seen off both the main, center- right opposition and his own party rebels, has said he will renew his pro-Eu- ropean coalition with the small, right-wing popu- list Independent Greeks (ANEL) party, which beat opinion polls to clear the three percent threshold re- quired for representation in parliament. The new gov- ernment will have a small majority of just five seats, but, according to Tsipras, is aiming to see out a four- year mandate. The final count of Sun- day's votes gave Tsipras' Syriza 35.5 percent, while the center-right New De- mocracy trailed with 28.1 percent. But in a sign of widespread discontent, more than four in 10 Greeks didn't vote and the Nazi- inspired Golden Dawn re- mained the country's third- strongest party with 7 per- cent. Tsiprasreadiesnew government a er big win GREECE By George Jahn The Associated Press VIENNA The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency ac- knowledged Monday that samples used to deter- mine whether Iran tried to develop a nuclear weapon were collected by the Ira- nians instead of agency experts, but insisted the probe stands up to strict agency standards. Such sampling of soil, air or dust from equipment is usually done by the Inter- national Atomic Energy Agency's own experts. But IAEA chief Yukiya Amano confirmed that Iranians carried out that part of the probe at Parchin, where the agency suspects that ex- plosive triggers for nuclear weapons might have been tested in the past. Diplomats say Iran in- sisted on the compromise as a condition for any probe of Parchin. Deputy IAEA Director General Tero Varjoranta said that there have been more than 40 instances of letting a country being in- spected use their own na- tionals to do the sampling and that the process is only a small part of a rigid reg- imen established by the agency to make sure there is no cheating. He said the criteria at Parchin included: inva- sive monitoring by video and still cameras while the sampling took place; GPS tracking of the sam- pling process; IAEA agree- ment on where the sam- ples were to be taken; re- view by unspecified peers of the inspection process; risk assessment and strict observance to make sure that procedures were fol- lowed step by step. "We feel fully confident that the process and the re- sult so far are fully in line with our safeguards prac- tices," he said, standing next to Amano at a Vienna news conference. Former IAEA deputy director general Olli Hei- nonen has described Iran as a particularly sensi- tive case however, saying he knows of no other case where a country under in- vestigation for possibly try- ing to make nuclear weap- ons was permitted to use its own personnel to collect environmental samples as part of the investigation. The Iran arrangement was first revealed in a con- fidential draft agreement between the sides seen last month by The Associ- ated Press. Iran's atomic energy agency spokesman, Beh- rouz Kalmandi, said IAEA experts were not physi- cally present during the sampling. But Amano said the procedure meets strict agency criteria that ensure "the integrity of the sam- pling process and the au- thenticity of the samples." Amano spoke a day af- ter he was taken on what Iranian media described as a ceremonial tour of the military site. He told re- porters in Vienna that he was able to enter a building that the agency had been observing via satellite and saw signs of "recent reno- vation work." He appeared to be refer- ring to the building where the agency suspects that weapons experiments were conducted in the past. The agency has frequently said that subsequent renovation work at and near the build- ing could hamper the IAEA probe, a position Amano repeated on Monday. Amano's one-day visit to Iran is part of an as- sessment due in December that will feed into the nu- clear deal reached in July between Tehran and six world powers and will help to determine whether sanc- tions will be lifted. Iran denies it has ever sought nuclear weapons, and insists Parchin is a conventional military site. Tehran has refused to al- low inspections of its mili- tary sites as part of the nu- clear deal, saying it fears foreign espionage. White House spokes- man Josh Earnest said the Parchin inspection and au- thentication "disproves the claims of our critics," who said Iran would be con- ducting self-inspections. Earnest said that as time goes forward, there will be "many opportunities" to show that the warnings of those who opposed the deal "are eventually disproven based on the way the agree- ment is implemented." IRANIANS CONDUCTED SAMPLING UN a ge nc y: I ra n' s ro le i n nuke probe meets standards Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, speaks in Vienna, Austria. 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