Tehran rejected accusations made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it exceeded the permissible stockpile of uranium by 19 times, while Russia warned Western countries against issuing another resolution within the agency's board of governors against Iran.

A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said the accusations contained in the IAEA's quarterly report are "a repetition of previous unfounded allegations, and the purpose of which is political."

Kamalvandi added that restoring oversight of the nuclear program as it was in the past requires all parties to abide by the nuclear agreement, and explained that they should not expect Iran to be open to additional inspections, at a time when the rest of the parties do not meet their obligations, and continue to impose its harsh sanctions on Iran. , as he put it.

And a quarterly report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations - yesterday, Wednesday - showed that Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched uranium - close to the degree needed for nuclear weapons - has increased to a level that is sufficient - in the case of increased enrichment - to make a bomb. Nuclear.

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The agency noted that Iran has continued in recent months to stockpile enriched uranium, and its stockpile is now more than 19 times the limit allowed under the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear agreement concluded in 2015.

The report stated that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium as of August 21 amounted to about 3,940 kilograms, an increase of 131.6 kilograms compared to the previous quarterly report.


The UN agency said yesterday, Wednesday, that it "cannot guarantee that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful", due to Tehran's failure to respond to the issue of undeclared sites suspected of witnessing undeclared activities.

On a related issue, Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadari Jahromi said that his country has no intention of leaving the negotiating table to revive the nuclear agreement concluded between Tehran and the major powers in 2015. Jahromi stressed Tehran's adherence to the demand to close the outstanding issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency before reaching any agreement.

Russian warning

On the other hand, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's representative to international organizations in Vienna, warned Western countries in the International Atomic Energy Agency against issuing a new resolution condemning Iran during the agency's governors' meeting next week.

Ulyanov added, in a tweet on Twitter, that such a decision would be very counterproductive, similar to the decision of the Agency’s Board of Trustees last June, which Russia warned against voting on, he said.

Such a resolution would be extremely counterproductive.

We must remember very negative consequences of the adoption of the resolution on #Iran at the June session of the #IAEA Board of Governors.

Russia about that before the voting.

https://t.co/XUlRadh7ls

— Mikhail Ulyanov (@Amb_Ulyanov) September 8, 2022

This is related to the IAEA's decision, in which it criticized Tehran's lack of cooperation regarding the investigation into finding traces of nuclear materials at 3 unauthorized sites in Iran.

The resolution’s passage came after the United States, Britain, France and Germany proposed, and 30 out of 35 countries voted in favor of the resolution in the agency’s Board of Governors, while Russia and China opposed it, while 3 countries, India, Libya and Pakistan abstained.

For its part, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Claire Logender said Thursday that Paris is "extremely concerned" about Iran's continued lack of cooperation with the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, and that it is consulting with its partners on the matter before the agency's board of governors meets next week.

Rewind

And the US State Department had said that the Iranian response to the European Union's proposals to revive the nuclear agreement set the negotiations back, in reference to Tehran's linking of agreeing to return to the nuclear agreement with the end of investigations conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran.

US State Department deputy spokesman Vidant Patel said in a press conference on Wednesday that his country "will not conclude an agreement that is not in the interest of US national security."

Earlier last month, the European Union submitted a "final" settlement proposal to end the negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement, calling on Tehran and Washington, who are negotiating indirectly, to respond to it, hoping to culminate in talks that began a year and a half ago.