IAEA Reports No Progress On Resolving Iran's Nuclear Safeguards Issues
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 9. There has been
no progress in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues
regarding Iran's nuclear program, said Rafael Grossi, Director
General of the International Atomic energy Agency (IAEA), Trend reports.
"Iran says it has declared all nuclear material, activities, and
locations required under its NPT Safeguards Agreement. However,
this statement is inconsistent with the agency's findings of
uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at undeclared locations
in Iran. The IAEA needs to know the current location(s) of the
nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment involved," Grossi
said, as he addressed the Board of Governors.
He further noted that Iran still is not implementing modified
Code 3.1, which is a legal obligation for Iran, having stated it
had suspended such implementation.
"These outstanding safeguards issues stem from Iran's
obligations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and need
to be resolved for the agency to be able to assure that Iran's
nuclear program is exclusively peaceful," Grossi added.
The Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action on Iran's nuclear program
was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group (the US, Russia,
China, the UK, France, and Germany) in January 2016. In May 2018,
the US announced its withdrawal from the plan and imposed sanctions
on Iran in November of the same year. Iran announced in 2020 that
there would be no restrictions on the Iran nuclear deal.
Meanwhile, in late 2020, the Iranian parliament adopted a
strategic plan to counter the sanctions, citing the non-fulfillment
of the JCPOA signed between Iran and six countries and the
imposition of sanctions on Iran.
Based on the decision of the Iranian parliament, as of February
23, Iran stopped the implementation of additional measures and an
additional protocol included in the nuclear deal. As a consequence,
the monitoring mechanism of the IAEA was reduced by 20-30
percent.
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