2023-09-16 16:44:42
On Saturday, the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency denounced Iran’s decision to exclude its inspectors from working in the country.
The Energy Agency described the Iranian measure of enslaving regarding two-thirds of its inspectors from the country as “inappropriate and unprecedented,” and considered it to hinder its ability to supervise Tehran’s nuclear activities.
“I strongly condemn this unilateral, disproportionate and unprecedented measure that affects the planning and inspection activities that the Agency routinely conducts in Iran, and is openly inconsistent with the cooperation that should exist between the Agency and Iran,” Rafael Grossi, Director General of the Agency, said in a statement.
Grossi is frustrated with the position of the major powers regarding the increase in “Iran’s activities”
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani stressed that political pressure once morest Iran on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will lead to the opposite result. He said: “It is a matter of regret that Britain, France, Germany, and America are seeking through political militarization at the Board of Governors meeting under the guise of “defending the International Atomic Energy Agency and the safeguards agreement, but with the aim of overturning the facts of sincere cooperation between Iran and the International Agency.”
Russian pessimism regarding reviving the nuclear agreement with Iran
He stressed his country’s commitment to “the principle of cooperation with the International Agency within the framework of the safeguards agreement.” Noting that the joint statement issued in March 2023 constitutes the framework for accelerating the pace of resolving the so-called outstanding issues surrounding the safeguards agreement. He stressed “the necessity of raising these matters that have political agendas behind them, because they hinder the course of cooperation between the two sides.”
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