The Iranian Atomic Energy Authority announced the suspension of surveillance cameras in one of Iran’s nuclear facilities as of today, calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency to reconsider its policies.
The authority clarified that the cameras that were stopped are not part of Iran’s commitment to the comprehensive safeguards agreement.
The authority indicated that 80% of the cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency are subject to comprehensive safeguards decisions and continue to work in nuclear facilities.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said it had more response measures, and the IAEA should reconsider its policies.
And she added, “We hope the IAEA will meet with cooperation and stop its inappropriate behavior,” noting that “the agency cannot ask us for more cooperation while it adopts bad faith.”
In the same context, Mohammad Reza Ghaibi, Iran’s representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that it is not yet clear if Washington wants to abandon the policy of maximum pressure, explaining that Tehran is continuing its negotiations seriously to solve the problems caused by Washington’s exit from the nuclear agreement.
He also stressed that the Vienna negotiations are an opportunity to prove a real intention to return to the nuclear agreement and lift all sanctions.
received accusations
For his part, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said that the European and American moves in the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors are political measures and take place within the framework of the policy of maximum pressure on Iran with the support of Israel.
An Islamist added to Al Jazeera that the Iranian nuclear program is a peaceful and declared program, and that the accusations once morest Iran are fabricated and undocumented, as he put it.
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization also said that there was no place for nuclear weapons in his country’s defense strategy, and described some’s accusations once morest Tehran as mere allegations.
Eslami also stressed that Tehran is ready to implement the terms of the nuclear agreement in full, provided that all parties abide by it without any selectivity.
In the same context, the “Nornews” website, which is close to the Iranian National Security Council, reported that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran will announce today a set of measures in response to the reports and behavior of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The website stated that the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization informed the IAEA of these measures.
Hold Tehran accountable
The United States blamed Iran for not reaching a compromise on a formula to revive the nuclear deal, saying Iran’s demands to lift sanctions were preventing progress.
For its part, the European Union said that Iran, while negotiating a return to full implementation of the nuclear deal, had taken a series of measures inconsistent with the JCPOA.
The European Union expressed its concern that Iran continues to enrich uranium well beyond the thresholds of the nuclear agreement in terms of the amount and level of enrichment.
He also called on Tehran not to initiate any other work related to uranium enrichment, and not to resume work in the production of uranium metal.
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency is discussing a Western draft resolution calling on Iran to expedite the disclosure of its ambiguous activities and to cooperate fully with the agency.
The United States, Germany, France and Britain submitted a draft resolution to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the outstanding questions regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
The draft resolution urges Iran to fully cooperate with the agency, and is the first of its kind since a similar measure was adopted once morest Tehran in June 2020, and is also an indication of the impatience of Western powers due to the stalemate in talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Iranian threat
The draft resolution calls on Iran to take urgent and immediate measures to fulfill its legal obligations, and to accept the offer of the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, to resolve the outstanding problems.
This comes at a time when Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has threatened Iran to pay a heavy price if it continues what he described as its defiant policy regarding its nuclear file.
On the other hand, the commander of the ground forces in the Iranian army, Major General Kiomars Haidari, said that the Iranian forces “will flatten Haifa and Tel Aviv if any mistake is made by the enemy,” as he put it.
And a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran had doubled its stockpile of enriched uranium 18 times what is allowed under the nuclear deal.
The agency said that Iran’s reserves of enriched uranium exceeded 3,800 kilograms, while the nuclear agreement allows it only an amount not exceeding regarding 203 kilograms.
According to the IAEA, Iran possesses more than 238 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20%.
As for what raises the concerns of the International Agency and the Western countries behind it, it is that Iran possesses 43 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%, which brings it close to producing a nuclear bomb.
If this amount is enriched to 90%, Iran will be ready to make an atomic bomb in regarding 10 days, as only 42 kilograms of uranium enriched to 90% is sufficient to produce this nuclear bomb.
