Iranian voluntarily agreed to be subject to further verification measuresInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and clarify doubts about the nature of its nuclear programBoth sides announced in a joint statement this Saturday.
The agreement was announced following a meeting between IAEA director Rafael Grossi and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. “get back on the right track” cooperationArgentine diplomat stated at a press conference in Vienna.
“We put a turnstile over the flow of information we have,” Grossi said. Residues of 84% enriched uranium, much higher than expected, or in traces of artificial uranium at three facilities that Tehran never announced as part of its atomic program. “Iranian, as a volunteer.
The note shows Iran’s willingness to continue cooperation and provide more information on these three facilities where artificially sourced uranium has been detected.
Grossi, verification measures access to certain people and certain materialsas well as reset control with cameras and measuring systems remotely disconnected. Likewise, he pointed to 50% more inspections at the Fordow plant, where 84% traces of uranium were detected, a level close to what would be required to make a nuclear bomb.
Iran denies enriching uranium to this purity and claims that the appearance of these particles is “something natural” In the process of producing 60% uranium.
“It’s a very good improvement in terms of transparency,” said Grossi. The IAEA director pointed out that his organization did not analyze whether this level of enrichment was intentional, rather that this is an issue that needs to be clarified. there may be accidental “oscillations” or “spikes” or time-limited. He said the intention was to figure out how this happened and whether there was an accumulation of enriched uranium up to that level.
The Argentine diplomat affirmed that this deal is crucial to the possibility of reinstating the JCPOA, the 2015 agreement on which Iran reduced its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, which broke up after it left the United States in 2018. Iran defaults a year later. The IAEA is tasked with monitoring Iran’s compliance with its commitments.
“Now we can start working again by rebuilding this knowledge base. It’s not words, it’s something very concrete. “This was a deficit we had and we agreed with Iran to address it,” Grossi said.
The IAEA has spent years trying to resolve these prominent issues regarding the nature of Iran’s nuclear program. In a report released this week, the IAEA recalled that Iran’s decision to disconnect dozens of IAEA surveillance and verification cameras hinders its ability to provide assurances about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.
For this reason, surveillance and verification activities are “severely affected”Says the IAEA, which must verify whether Iran is complying with its nuclear obligations under the JCPOA.