Another warning shot.

The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted, on Wednesday June 8, in Vienna, by a large majority, a resolution formally calling Iran to order for its lack of cooperation, have diplomatic sources told AFP.

The text tabled by the United States and the E3 (United Kingdom, France and Germany) is the first criticizing Tehran voted on at the UN agency since June 2020, against a backdrop of the escalation of the Iranian nuclear program and the impasse of the negotiations to resuscitate the 2015 agreement.

It was approved by 30 members, with only Russia and China voting against, according to two diplomats.

Three countries also abstained (India, Libya, Pakistan).

This resolution urges Iran to "cooperate" with the UN body, which deplored in a recent report the absence of "technically credible" answers concerning traces of enriched uranium found on three undeclared sites.

"It is essential that Iran provide all information and documents deemed necessary by the IAEA to clarify and resolve these issues," insisted US Ambassador Laura Holgate during discussions preceding the vote.

"We are not taking these steps to escalate the confrontation for political purposes. We are not looking for such an escalation", but simply "credible explanations" to finally close this file, she added in response to criticism from Moscow and Beijing.

Tehran has already retaliated by disconnecting, on Wednesday, cameras installed by the IAEA to monitor its activities.

The spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEIO), Behrouz Kamalvandi, who went to a site to see the shutdown of the devices, warned that "other measures were being considered".

"Iran has no hidden nuclear activities or unreported sites. It is a question (on the part of the West) of maintaining maximum pressure" on the Islamic Republic, affirmed Mohammad Eslami, head of the OIEA, quoted by the official agency Irna.

With AFP

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