Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, as saying that "Tehran will not operate the cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which it removed last June, until the 2015 nuclear agreement is revived."
"These cameras are linked to the nuclear deal; if the Westerners return to this agreement and we are confident that they will not cause any harm, then we will decide on these cameras," Eslami said, according to Reuters news agency quoted Iran's Tasnim.
Earlier, the head of the Iranian authority of Al-Jazeera said that the European and American moves in the board of governors of this international agency are political measures and take place within the framework of the policy of maximum pressure on Iran with the support of Israel.
Eslami added that the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful and declared, and that the accusations against his country are fabricated and undocumented, as he put it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency had earlier condemned Iran's decision to "close 27 cameras" to monitor its nuclear activities, warning of a "fatal blow" to talks on this thorny file if the disruption continued.
It is noteworthy that the United States withdrew in 2018 from the Iranian nuclear agreement under former President Donald Trump, and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran as part of a policy of "maximum pressure".
Iran responded - a year after the US withdrawal - by gradually retreating from a number of its basic commitments, most notably the levels of uranium enrichment.