Iran has voluntarily agreed to submit to more verification measures, still to be specified, within the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to clarify doubts about the nature of its nuclear program, both parties announced today in a joint statement. The agreement was announced after a meeting between IAEA director Rafael Grossi in Tehran and Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, so that the collaboration “returns to the right path,” the Argentine diplomat said at a press conference in Vienna.
“We have put a tourniquet on the bleeding of information that we had,” Grossi said when summarizing this agreement to address pending issues such as the remains of 84% enriched uranium, well above the expected, or on traces of artificial uranium in three facilities that Tehran he never declared as part of his atomic program.
“With the constructive discussions that we are having now, I am convinced that we will pave the way for important agreements,” Grossi stressed.
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) traveled to Iran after the discovery of uranium particles enriched near the threshold necessary to make an atomic bomb.
The two-day visit by Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi comes amid efforts by the Vienna-based UN organization to get greater cooperation from Tehran on its nuclear activities.
The IAEA official had emphasized that “he was only willing to go to Tehran if he had an invitation to speak with the president.”
A confidential report from this agency this week indicated that they had found particles of uranium enriched to 83.7%, just below the 90% required to make an atomic bomb, at the Fordo underground plant, about 100 km south of Tehran. .
Iran denies wanting to acquire the nuclear bomb and justified itself by saying that there were “involuntary fluctuations” in the enrichment process. The Islamic Republic has claimed that it has not tried to enrich uranium beyond 60%, and insists that its nuclear program is purely civilian.
The historic 2015 international deal between the six P5 1 powers and Iran allowed Tehran relief from economic sanctions in exchange for limiting its nuclear activity.
The restrictions included in the pact included a uranium enrichment threshold of 3.67% and were to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
But the United States unilaterally withdrew from the pact in 2018 under the presidency of Donald Trump and imposed new sanctions on Tehran, which gradually backed away from the terms of the agreement.
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