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Iranian nuclear industry: waiting for the new government is "uncomfortable", for the IAEA

2021-07-19T20:40:12.948Z


Waiting for the new government to take office in Tehran in August, which puts Iranian nuclear negotiations at a standstill, makes ...


Waiting for the new government to take office in Tehran in August, which puts Iranian nuclear negotiations at a standstill, makes the situation

"uncomfortable"

for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told AFP its director general Rafael Grossi.

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"There is a series of questions that we are trying to clarify with Iran and we will have to wait and resume again with the new management team

,

"

lamented Rafael Grossi during an interview in Rio de Janeiro, on the sidelines of 'an official visit to Brazil.

“It's a pretty uncomfortable situation, at least for us at the agency. I don't know about the others (negotiating players), but I imagine that they would prefer to be negotiating rather than waiting, ”

insisted the director of this UN body.

“We sail by sight, but we have to be optimistic (...) we have to wait. As soon as the new government is in a position to work with us seriously, we will have to start as soon as possible, ”

added Rafael Grossi.

On Saturday, a senior Iranian government official confirmed that negotiations to try to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would not resume until August.

"We are in a period of transition (...) Therefore, the talks in Vienna must obviously wait for our new government,"

Abbas Araghchi, deputy foreign minister and head of the Iranian negotiating team, wrote on Twitter. .

Winner of the presidential election in June, Ebrahim Raïssi, from the conservative camp, must be sworn in before Parliament on August 5.

Dialogue maintained by IAEA

Rafael Grossi said that despite the end of negotiations on the Vienna agreement, the IAEA was maintaining a dialogue

"in parallel"

with Tehran on the subject of inspections, access to the facilities having been

"limited by significantly ”

since February.

“Iran has obligations to the agency. They can't just say 'let's stop' (inspections). They could, but that would trigger a problematic situation

, ”he added.

Rafael Grossi also raised the issue of data recorded by IAEA surveillance cameras installed in certain nuclear facilities, which have not been provided in real time by Tehran since February.

"We have information according to which they will not be erased, but since the expiration of the agreement concluded with Iran on June 24, we depend on verbal assurances and everything remains very fragile,"

he said. highlighted.

Agreement moribund since 2018

Tehran and the great powers had started talks in April to save the international Iranian nuclear agreement concluded in 2015. The latter has been dying since the United States came out of it in 2018, under the presidency of Donald Trump (2017- 2021), and reinstated sanctions against Tehran, which in response abandoned most of its commitments.

Concluded in Vienna, this pact offers Tehran relief from Western and UN sanctions in exchange for its commitment to never acquire atomic weapons, and a drastic reduction in its nuclear program, placed under a schedule of inspections. the strictest ever set up by the IAEA.

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Donald Trump's successor Joe Biden had said he was ready to return to the deal, but his administration has also expressed growing frustration with the timeline for the talks.

"We remain open to the continuation, and ultimately to the conclusion of discussions (on the agreement) in a productive manner

,

"

US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.

"We have also been clear that this offer will not be on the table indefinitely,"

he said.

Source: lefigaro

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