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2020-12-17T18:49:35.970Z


Grossi said Tehran had already violated the agreement too much for Biden to simply return to it. "The starting point no longer exists," said the chairman of the agency overseeing the deal. He stressed that the removal of the enriched uranium reservoir and the new centrifuges would require an orderly plan.


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IAEA Chairman: A new agreement with Iran will be required to revive the nuclear deal

Grossi said Tehran had already violated the agreement too much for Biden to simply return to it.

"The starting point no longer exists," said the chairman of the agency overseeing the deal. He stressed that the removal of the enriched uranium reservoir and the new centrifuges would require an orderly plan.

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Thursday, 17 December 2020, 18:43

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In the video: IAEA chairman (Photo: Reuters)

The revival of the nuclear deal under President-elect Joe Biden will require a new agreement with Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chairman Rafael Grossi said today (Thursday).

According to him, the agreement will determine how violations of the agreement by Tehran will be eliminated.



Biden, who will enter the White House on January 20, said the United States would return to the agreement "if Iran re-enforces it in full."

After outgoing President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2018 agreement and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, it responded by violating most of its commitments.

Tehran claims it can lift its response measures quickly if Washington removes the sanctions.



Grossi, whose agency oversees the implementation of the nuclear deal signed in 2015, said in an interview with Reuters that there were too many violations to simply return to the original agreement.

"I can not imagine them just saying, 'We're going back to the starting point,' because the starting point no longer exists," he stressed.

He added that "obviously there will be a need for a protocol, agreement, understandings or some appendix that will clarify what we need to do."

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Iran's Atomic Organization leader Ali Akbar Salehi and IAEA chairman Rafael Grossi in Tehran (Photo: Reuters)

He said, "There is more material (nuclear), more activity, more centrifuges, and more announcements. So what will happen with all this? This is a question that they have to decide on the political level."



Iran's enriched uranium stockpile has already reached more than 2.4 tonnes, 12 times the threshold set by the agreement, but still well below the eight tonnes it had before signing it.

Iran enriches uranium at 4.5%, above 3.67% set by the agreement, but less than 20% before it.

In order to develop nuclear weapons - something that Iran denies it ever intended to do - 90% uranium needs to be enriched.

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"The starting point no longer exists."

Bentens Atomic Reactor (Photo: AP)

Iran also enriches uranium in places where it is banned by agreement, such as in Purdue, which is dug in the mountain.

Recently, it has started operating advanced centrifuges at an underground facility in Natanz, contrary to the agreement's restrictions that allow it to enrich uranium in first-generation centrifuges only.



"What I see is that we are going back to December 2015 again," Grossi said, referring to the month prior to the start of the implementation of the restrictions, after which a large amount of enriched uranium and nuclear equipment were quickly removed.

"If they want to do it, they can do it pretty quickly. But all of these things need to have a clear path," the IAEA chairman said.



Tensions between the United States and Iran have recently increased, towards the end of Trump's term.

The assassination last month of Mohsan Fahrizadeh, who is considered the father of Tehran's military nuclear program, was seen as an attempt by the United States and Israel to prevent the Biden government from returning to the nuclear deal.

Iran accuses Israel of assassinating Fahrizadeh, and promises revenge.

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