Iran Solves Two Important Issues With IAEA
Date
5/30/2023 10:08:55 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 30. Two important
controversial issues were resolved between the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), during the recent discussions between the two sides,
trend reports.
According to informed sources, the issue raised by the IAEA
regarding the Abadeh nuclear facility in Fars province in the south
of Iran, has already been resolved.
Also, the issue raised by the IAEA about the discovery of 83.7
percent enriched uranium remains in Iran was also resolved. No
additional information was given about the details of the resolved
issues.
During the visit of Rafael Grossi, Director General of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, to Tehran in March of 2023,
discussions were held with officials of the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
In January 2016, JCPOA was launched between Iran and the P5+1
group (US, Russia, China, UK, France, and Germany) in connection
with Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the US announced its
withdrawal from the deal and imposed sanctions on Iran in November
of the same year. To preserve the agreements reached as part of the
JCPOA, the European signatories of the deal started in January 2019
that a financial mechanism for maintaining trade with Iran called
INSTEX was formed.
On May 8, 2019, Iran announced that it had ceased fulfilling its
commitments regarding the sale of over 300 kilograms of uranium, as
stated in the deal, basing its decision on the other signatories
that have not fulfilled their obligations. On July 7, Iran
announced that it will not be fulfilling its commitments regarding
the enrichment of uranium at 3.67 percent and the reconstruction of
the Arak Heavy Water Reactor Facility as stated in the deal.
Iran announced that it will enrich uranium using next-generation
centrifuges and will not mix it with the enriched uranium residues
as part of the third step of reducing commitments in JCPOA on
Sept.5. On Nov. 5, 2019, Iran announced that it took the fourth
step in connection with reducing its commitments to the nuclear
agreement. So, uranium gas is being pumped to the centrifuges at
the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.
On Jan.2020, Iran took the last fifth step in reducing the
number of its commitments within JCPOA.
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