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Iran threatens to end an agreement with the IAEA
Tehran this week reduced its cooperation with the United Nations agency.
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An Iranian document revealed that Tehran threatened to end an agreement it concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency that temporarily maintains most of the agency's monitoring of its activities, if the agency's board adopts a US-led effort to criticize Tehran next week.
Tehran this week reduced its cooperation with the United Nations agency, and ended additional inspection measures that were applied under the nuclear deal it concluded with world powers in 2015, in the latest step to respond to the re-imposition of US sanctions on it after Washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
In its document sent to the remaining members of the International Atomic Energy Agency prior to next week's quarterly meeting of the agency's board of governors, the United States said it wanted a draft resolution that "expresses the Council's deep concern regarding Iran's cooperation with the agency."
The American document reviewed by "Reuters" stated that the council should call on Iran to stop its violations of the agreement and cooperate with the agency to explain the reason for finding uranium particles in old, undeclared sites, in results that were first published by Reuters, then confirmed by a report. The agency this week.
Iran, in turn, said in its document, "Iran considers this step destructive and represents the end of the mutual understanding that was reached on February 21 between the agency and Iran," referring to an agreement with the Agency's Director General, Rafael Grossi, that was concluded early this week.
She added that this "may lead to more complications in the nuclear deal," noting that France, Britain, Germany and the United States "revealed their plans" regarding a draft resolution to the council.
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It might lead to more
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