Nuclear: IAEA adopts resolution calling Iran to order

Since the start of the year, the IAEA has published two reports accusing Tehran of failing to answer questions related to nuclear activities at three sites. REUTERS

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The International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, adopted a resolution on June 19 for Iran to give it access to two suspicious sites. It considers that these two sites could have harbored clandestine nuclear activities in the 2000s.

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The UN agency adopted this Friday, June 19, a resolution formally calling to order Iran concerning the inspection of two sites suspected of having harbored undeclared nuclear activities. It is the first resolution criticizing Iran since 2012. The text was drafted by the European signatories to the Vienna agreement, Germany, France and Great Britain. China and Russia voted against.

The adoption of this resolution has first of all a symbolic scope but may be the prelude to a transmission of the litigation to the UN Security Council empowered to take sanctions. In fact, the officials of the institution guaranteeing the application of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) believe that Iran is bound to accept the inspections requested, in accordance with its commitments to the IAEA. After the unilateral withdrawal of the United States and the reinstatement of economic sanctions decided in May 2018 by Donald Trump, Iran began to evade part of the provisions of the Vienna agreement .

US and Israeli intelligence, as well as the IAEA, believe that Iran conducted a secret nuclear weapons program, which it stopped developing in 2003, well before the signing of the 2015 agreement. Tehran denies
the existence of such a program.

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