A quarterly meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog’s main policy-making body began on Monday with Western powers again choosing not to seriously confront Iran over its failure to cooperate with the agency on a range of issues, diplomats said, according to Reuters.
It is more than a year since the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution against Iran, which was followed by Tehran decisive reaction.
Addressing the opening meeting of the Board of Governors earlier today, the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reiterated his call on Iran for full cooperation despite all Iran’s cooperation with the Agency.
Grossi said that “Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium continues to increase, even though the level of uranium enriched up to 60% has fallen slightly.”
Iran took some steps away from the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA after the illegal unilateral US withdrawal from the deal and the continued E3 participants’ indifference to the illegal US sanction on Iran. Tehran has vowed that it will reverse course and will fully abide by the deal when the Western parties remove all the sanctions against it in accordance with the text of the JCPOA.
Iran and the other parties to the nuclear deal were very close to concluding an agreement in September 2022 to revive the deal after the removal of sanctions on Tehran but the US government made excessive demands to bring to JCPOA revival talks to the current situation since pinning hope on the foreign provoked riots at the time.
In relevant remarks, the Iranian foreign ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said on Monday that Iran has not closed the diplomatic channels to revive the deal yet.
MNA
