Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have clinched a “good deal” that could allay concerns about Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Wednesday.
In comments at the conclusion of a meeting of heads of Iranian diplomatic missions in neighboring countries, held in Tehran on Wednesday, Amirabdollahian said Iran and the IAEA reached a good deal last night that could allay the concerns that have been raised about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
The agreement could also result in the continuation of mutual cooperation between Iran and the UN nuclear agency, he added.
Amirabdollahian also noted that the IAEA has sometimes utilized technical tools to politically affect the Vienna negotiations on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Highlighting Iran’s policy of dignified negotiations with the P4+1 in Vienna, he categorically denied reports that the documents proposed by the Iranian team of negotiators contain demands beyond the JCPOA.
“Those texts (proposed by Iran) are entirely in accordance with the JCPOA and contain nothing beyond the JCPOA. The texts are the result of tens of hours of discussions,” the foreign minister added.
He reiterated that Iran insists on the full removal of the sanctions imposed after the JCPOA in exchange for the alleviation of the other side’s concerns about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive report released on Wednesday, Noor News, an agency affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said Iran’s initiative has prevented a misunderstanding in the relations between Iran and the IAEA with regard to an issue that the IAEA director general had raised two times during his visits to Tehran.
Considering that the main part of the judicial and security investigations on the cameras damaged in the TESA Karaj Complex of Iran has been completed, that the IAEA has condemned the act of sabotage in the complex, and that the IAEA has agreed that the Iranian experts would conduct technical checks on the cameras before installing them, Iran has voluntarily allowed the IAEA to replace the damaged cameras with new ones, the report said.
After the IAEA’s request for the replacement of the cameras that had been damaged in the TESA Karaj Complex after an act of sabotage, Iran had made it clear that it would not allow the cameras to be serviced or replaced until the organizations in charge conduct the technical and security checks on those cameras, the report added.
The data recorded by the new cameras, like those recorded by the previous ones, will remain at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran’s disposal and would not be transferred to the IAEA, the report said.
