The tone is rising (again) between Westerners and Iran against a background of nuclear power.
The United States confirmed on Thursday that it is preparing a resolution with France, Germany and the United Kingdom to urge Tehran to "fully cooperate" with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran has rejected it in advance and judged this meeting, which is to take place at the beginning of next week, "non-constructive".
“Any political action by the United States and the three European countries within the IAEA would undoubtedly provoke a proportionate, effective and immediate response from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Iranian foreign minister said. , Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, during a telephone conversation with his European counterpart, Josep Borrell, according to an official press release.
A meeting that will make the negotiation process “more difficult”
This file, a cause of concern for several months for the international community, comes on top of the deadlock in the negotiations launched more than a year ago to try to save the agreement supposed to prevent the Islamic Republic from manufacturing the atomic bomb. , a goal denied by Tehran.
The Iranian minister described the decision by the United States and three European countries as "an act contrary to diplomatic practice, hasty and unconstructive", which "will make the negotiation process more difficult and complicated", according to the text, without more precision.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also judged the trip to Israel of the Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, as "contrary to the principle of neutrality" of the UN organization.
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