TEHRAN (Iran News) –For decades the West has tried to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran to bring it down by different tools and any means and in recent years the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has turned into a major tool of the West for putting pressure on Tehran and every now and then the issue of human rights violation is raised by the West against Tehran.
Apparently, the IAEA has turned into a tool for extortion by the West which is used against the Islamic Republic of Iran and whenever the West feels weak against Tehran in different fields, it suddenly turns to the IAEA to play in favor of them against Tehran for getting concessions but Tehran so far has responded to all tricks of the West with prudent moves and it will not let the West use the IAEA for achieving its vicious goals.
On Friday, Iran’s nuclear chief once again warned that the “unprofessional and unacceptable” behavior of the UN nuclear watchdog’s Director General Rafael Grossi would harm his reputation and that of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Mohammad Eslami, who heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), made the remarks in an interview with the Iranian state TV on Friday after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief in a Wednesday report accused Iran of making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60% purity at its Fordow plant. He said Iran objects to the political issues dictated by Grossi and has written a “letter to the agency that an inspector… who has inspected our facilities, has made a mistake and given an incorrect report.”
“But yet again the agency’s director general released this issue to the media,” the AEOI chief said.
“This is an unprofessional and unacceptable attitude and we hope that this practice will not continue… because this is not acceptable for his reputation and that of the agency,” Eslami said.
Back in November, Iran sent a letter to the IAEA informing it of a decision to start enriching uranium to the purity level of 60% at its Fordow nuclear facility.
Moreover, Iran has fitted and launched new centrifuges at two empty halls in Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites. The halls, under Iran’s commitment to the terms of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), had been vacant but centrifuges have been installed there once again.
In a joint statement on Friday, the United States and the three European parties to the JCPOA — Britain, France and Germany — said Iran’s response to the IAEA’s report was “inadequate” and accused Tehran of being inconsistent with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“We judge Iran’s actions based on the impartial and objective reports of the IAEA, not Iran’s purported intent. As stated by the Agency, this unnotified change is inconsistent with Iran’s obligations under its NPT-required Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement,” the statement read.
The IAEA chief told the European Parliament on January 24 that he plans to visit Tehran this month “for a much-needed political dialogue, or reestablishment thereof, with Iran.”
Iran and the IAEA are currently in a dispute triggered by the agency’s Israeli-influenced accusations, which were leveled against Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities just as the Islamic Republic and other parties to the Iran deal appeared close to an agreement on reviving the JCPOA.
Iran says an agreement on the revival of the nuclear deal hinges on the settlement of Safeguards issues between Tehran and the IAEA, and that without settling those issues, reviving the 2015 deal makes no sense.
The negotiations to salvage the JCPOA have been at a standstill since August 2022 due to Washington’s insistence on its hard-nosed position of not removing all the sanctions that were imposed on the Islamic Republic by the previous US administration.
Iran maintains it is necessary for the other side to offer some guarantees that they will remain committed to any agreement that is reached.
For months the West has tried to get concessions from Tehran but it has failed and after recent riots and unrests in Iran, it changed its policy of extortion from using “access to nuclear bomb” to “human rights violation” and therefore imposing many human rights sanction against Iran and Iranian officials and entities, and now that it has realized all of its efforts for destabilizing the Islamic Republic by the riots have failed, it once again has turned to the nuclear issue, and who and what is better than the IAEA which has always served the West to achieve its goals.
It seems the West and its allies once again want to use nuclear issue as a tool of extortion from Iran and every day some new accusation and claim is raised by this agency while it should remain neutral and technical body than pro-West and political one.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has always reiterated that it pursues peaceful nuclear program for peaceful purposes and it does not intend to make A-bomb but the West insists otherwise and it wants to demonize the Islamic Republic of Iran for its own vicious purposes but all should know that Tehran will not retreat even one inch from its rights in peaceful nuclear program as we see it has recently held an exhibition on its nuclear achievements which bespeaks of the strong determination of the country and no let-up is seen in its nuclear program, and the enemies are better to come to their senses and accept Tehran’s condition if they really seek peace and good relation because Iran is determined to defend its right which has been ignored by the West.
The IAEA is also better to act based on its real mission and task rather than being the puppet of the big powers for extortion from the countries which are at odds with the big powers.
