The UN atomic agency denounces the Iranian regime’s non-compliance with the agreement on the monitoring of nuclear materials

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denounced this Sunday that the Iranian regime denied him “essential” access to a centrifuge component manufacturing plant.

The UN atomic agency was unable to enter the TESA Karaj centrifuge components workshop in Iran on September 12 which goes against the agreement reached with the Islamic Republic a few weeks ago, the IAEA said in a statement.

According to the text, the IAEA Director General, Rafael Grossi, reiterated that the execution of “all agency activities” related to “identified agency equipment and Iranian facilities and locations” is “essential”.

In the report, Grossi informed member countries that the Islamic Republic allowed the remainder of access between September 20 and September 22.

Thus, the IAEA inspectors were able to carry out their surveillance missions and replace the storage devices at “all the necessary locations”. except in the TESA Karaj workshopaccording to the statement.

On September 12, the atomic agency announced that it had reached a agreement with Iran on nuclear program monitoring equipment, a few days after denouncing a lack of cooperation from the Iranians.

“IAEA inspectors are authorized to intervene to maintain equipment and replace hard drivesThe UN agency reported in a joint statement.

Grossi, who has already visited Tehran twice this year, said that “the continuity of the agency’s equipment operations here (in Iran) is essential to provide the necessary guarantees and information to the IAEA and to the world that everything is in order “.

By virtue of a law passed in December by your Parliament, Iran restricted IAEA inspectors’ access to some of its nuclear facilities in February. Still, a compromise was found to ensure some degree of oversight, but it expired in June.

The IAEA’s latest report comes as negotiations have stalled to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear program deal between the major powers and Tehran.

The pact offers the Persian regime the end of part of the international sanctions in exchange for the country seriously promising that it does not intend to acquire atomic weapons and drastically reduce its nuclear program, under UN control.

But after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from this agreement, in 2018, under the presidency of Donald Trump, Iran also put aside a good part of its commitments and did not respect on several occasions what had been. agreed.

Last week, as part of the 76th United Nations General Assembly, the President of the United States, Joe Biden said Washington would return “fully” to the Iran nuclear deal if the Tehran regime did the same.

The president said the United States is “working” with China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany to “diplomatically involve Iran and demand a return.” the Joint Global Action Plan (JCPoA).

“We are ready to fully comply again if Iran does the same”added.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal are expected to resume “in the coming weeks.”

Last Tuesday, the German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, also urged Iran to return to the negotiating table held in Vienna to return to the nuclear pact.

Maas met his Iranian counterpart, Hosein Amirabdolahian, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and insisted that “time is running out”.

“We still believe that it is possible that the negotiations will lead to a positive result, but not in the coming months, but in the coming weeks “German Foreign Minister said after Tehran said it could take “two or three months” to appoint a new delegation.

The new Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi has repeatedly stressed that Iran wants to continue negotiatingThe Iranian delegation to participate in the post-election talks has not yet been determined.

With information from AFP

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