(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 15. The recentstatements by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) DirectorGeneral Rafael Grossi are not helping the Comprehensive JointAction Plan, as they include more political aspects than technicalones, the spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry Nasser Kananisaid during the press conference in Tehran, Trend reports.
According to him, the number of statements by the IAEA DirectorGeneral has increased to a certain extent recently. On this basis,Iran is waiting for the IAEA director general to take steps withinthe framework of his responsibility.
However, the IAEA director general stated that Iran has recentlyincreased the production of enriched uranium by 60 percent.
To note, the Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action on Iran'snuclear program was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group(the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, andGermany) in January 2016. The US announced in May 2018 that it waswithdrawing from the plan and imposed sanctions on Iran in Novemberof the same year. Iran has announced that there will be norestrictions on the Iran nuclear deal in 2020.
In late 2020, the Iranian parliament adopted a strategic plan tocounter the sanctions, citing the non-fulfillment of the JointComprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and sixcountries and the imposition of sanctions on Iran.
According to the decision of the Iranian parliament, as ofFebruary 23, Iran had stopped the implementation of additionalmeasures and an additional protocol included in the nuclear deal a consequence, the monitoring mechanism of the IAEA was reducedby 20–30 percent.
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