Iran: "No information given to the IAEA until the sanctions are lifted" | Israel Today

A spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency announced a halt to the transfer of electronic information to the international organization • Europe intends to work to condemn Tehran

• Inspectors of the Atomic Energy Agency in Iran // Photo: AP

Iranian Atomic Energy Agency spokesman Bahruz Kamalbandi announced today (Monday) that his country will stop transferring digital information from the country's nuclear sites to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In an interview with the state news agency Fares, Kamalbandi said: "We will not provide the agency with any digital information by direct transmission as long as US sanctions on Iran are not lifted." 

Kamalbandi referred to information coming from the agency's cameras and surveillance devices at various nuclear sites in Iran, which broadcast directly to the organization and provide technical information for the organization's inspectors.

Iran has allowed, in an agreement signed with the organization, to continue to allow the devices to collect the data, but they will not be passed on to the agency. 

This is another violation of the nuclear agreement that Iran signed with the six powers in 2015. Kamelbandi announced that if sanctions were lifted over Iran, his country would return to pass on the information to the organization's members within three months from today. 

Meanwhile, European countries, particularly Britain, Germany and France, are preparing for a joint statement of condemnation, together with the International Atomic Energy Agency, of Iran's conduct in violating the agreement and its refusal to renegotiate with the United States on its return to the agreement.