IAEA confirms access to all intended sites

reporter 1222 — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:17:01 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The latest report of the IAEA confirms the nuclear watchdog’s inspectors had additional access to all the intended sites in Iran, emphasizing that the organization is indeed continuing to verify Iran’s nuclear activities under the Safeguards Agreement.

The report, published in 40 paragraphs, confirms the verification of Iran’s nuclear activities and cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.

Despite Iran’s extensive cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA Director General Rafael under pressure from the West called for greater transparency about Iran’s nuclear activities on Wednesday.

His remarks came as the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a joint statement in late August, at the end of Rafael Grossi’s two-day visit to Tehran, stating, “Iran has voluntarily provided access to the Agency’s two designated sites and will facilitate the Agency’s verification activities to resolve these issues.” 219

Grossi says the presence of uranium particles at an undeclared location in Iran still needs to be fully and promptly clarified by Tehran. Iran’s ambassador to the agency says while it took the IAEA eight months to analyze samples, Iran has only had two and a half months to work on the latest findings of the agency and provide clarifications.

Grossi also reported that Iran has begun feeding uranium gas into a cascade of more advanced centrifuges at its underground enrichment plant at Natanz. The move is part of measures undertaken by Iran beyond the limitations set in the nuclear deal following the US withdrawal in 2018.

The IAEA chief says the operation of these more advanced centrifuges will not lead to a significant increase in the volume of Iran’s enriched uranium, currently 12 times the limit mentioned in the nuclear deal.

Iran says it’s ready to reverse all the steps it has taken beyond its commitments when sanctions are lifted and the European signatories to the deal comply with their commitment to cooperate in the economic and nuclear fields with Tehran.

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Iran: IAEA Have Access to 2 Nuclear Sites

reporter 1222 — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 09:30:21 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran agreed to voluntarily grant the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to two sites specified by the UN nuclear agency.

At the conclusion of a two-day trip by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to Tehran, Iran and the UN agency issued a joint statement on agreements and the results of high-level talks between the two sides.

According to the Wednesday statement put on the website of the IAEA, Iran is “voluntarily providing the IAEA with access to the two locations specified by the IAEA.”

What follows is the full text of the joint statement:

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) agreed to further reinforce their cooperation and enhance mutual trust to facilitate the full implementation of Iran’s Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA) and the Additional Protocol (AP) thereto, which is provisionally applied by Iran since 16 January 2016.

After intensive bilateral consultations, Iran and the IAEA reached an agreement on the resolution of the safeguards implementation issues specified by the IAEA, in good faith. In this regard, Iran is voluntarily providing the IAEA with access to the two locations specified by the IAEA and facilitating the IAEA verification activities to resolve these issues. Dates for the IAEA access and the verification activities have been agreed. The IAEA verification activities will proceed in accordance with the CSA and the AP, and the IAEA’s standard verification practice as implemented for all States with CSAs and APs on equal basis and without discrimination.

In the context of resolution GOV/2015/72 adopted by the Board of Governors on 15 December 2015, the IAEA and Iran recognize that these safeguards implementation issues are exclusively related to nuclear material and activities subject to safeguards under the CSA and the AP.

In this present context, based on analysis of available information to the IAEA, the IAEA does not have further questions to Iran and further requests for access to locations other than those declared by Iran under its CSA and AP.

Both sides recognize the independence, impartiality, and professionalism of the IAEA continue to be essential in the fulfillment of its verification activities.

The IAEA will continue to take into consideration Iran’s security concerns, by protecting all safeguards confidential information in accordance with the IAEA’s Statute, the relevant provisions of the CSA and the AP, and the established IAEA confidentiality regime, standards, and procedures.

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