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Nuclear deal with Iran - Tehran announces next violation

2021-02-16T21:37:13.263Z


On Monday, Iran threatened further violations of the nuclear deal. A day later, Tehran announced: The inspections of Iranian plants by the International Atomic Energy Agency will be restricted.


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Iranian nuclear plant Bushehr (archive recording)

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Iran will reduce its cooperation with the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) starting next Tuesday.

This was announced by the supervisory authority based in Vienna.

Iran had informed the IAEA that it would no longer implement the voluntary transparency measures from the Vienna nuclear agreement from February 23.

In addition, Tehran announced that it would no longer adhere to the so-called additional protocol, which allows IAEA inspectors to visit at short notice.

On Monday, Tehran had already threatened the UN atomic authority with considerable restrictions on inspections if there was no breakthrough in the nuclear dispute with the US by the end of the month.

The reason for this is an Iranian law that, from February 21, will limit the extensive control powers of the IAEA inspectors to only certain nuclear facilities.

"Director General Grossi has offered to travel to Iran to find a mutually acceptable solution so that the agency can continue its important verification work," said the IAEA announcement on Tuesday.

The unlimited access of the inspectors to the Iranian nuclear facilities on the basis of the IAEA additional protocol is part of the Vienna nuclear agreement of 2015, which should prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb.

Without this access, nothing would de facto remain of the agreement.

The then US President Donald Trump resigned from the international nuclear treaty in May 2018.

With tough sanctions and a policy of maximum pressure, he wanted to persuade the leadership in Tehran to negotiate an agreement with stronger and longer-term conditions.

The sanctions in particular led to the worst economic crisis in Iran's history.

One year after the US withdrew from the nuclear agreement, Iran had begun to violate the requirements step by step, as announced.

For example, uranium was enriched to 20 percent - above the specified upper limit of 3.67 percent.

However, the enrichment is still below 90 percent, which is necessary for the use of nuclear weapons.

Iran also expanded its supply of low-enriched uranium and used modern centrifuges for enrichment.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently asked Biden to return to the agreement.

Then his country will again fully meet all obligations.

Biden, in turn, announced that the United States would return if Iran again strictly adheres to its conditions.

The leadership in Tehran had repeatedly promised this should the US lift its sanctions.

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Source: spiegel

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