Nuclear: Iran agrees with IAEA to replace cameras in Karaj

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi and the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami during their meeting in Tehran on November 23, 2021. © Reuters

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Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to replace damaged surveillance cameras at the Tessa site in Karaj, where Tehran produces state-of-the-art centrifuges.

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With our correspondent in Tehran,

This move on Iran's part comes as

with the major powers meeting in Vienna have made little headway to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

Tehran rejected the UN agency's request to replace these damaged cameras after an act of sabotage last June attributed by Iran to Israel.

Iran manufactures state-of-the-art centrifuges at this site which are used to enrich uranium.

The fate of these centrifuges is one of the points of disagreement in the Vienna negotiations.

They are indeed more powerful and allow Iran to accelerate the enrichment of uranium.

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Tehran has also installed a cascade of 164 IR-6 centrifuges in its underground Fordoo site to make 20% enrichment.

According to the 2015 agreement, Tehran must limit its enrichment to less than 4%.

If Iran has accepted that the UN agency replace the cameras, on the other hand the country will keep the films and will not give them to the IAEA until an agreement has been reached in Vienna.

These negotiations are currently at an impasse, both on the lifting of sanctions by the Americans, but also the actions that

must take in return to limit its nuclear program again.

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