The IAEA Director General has landed for a surprise visit to Israel and will meet with Bennett

Grossi arrived in Israel a few days before the convening of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, in which the United States and European powers will promote a condemnation decision against Iran.

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02/06/2022

Thursday, 02 June 2022, 20:43 Updated: 21:18

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A surprise visit.

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The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr. Rafael Grossi, recently landed for a surprise visit to Israel. The Prime Minister's Office said that Grossi will meet tomorrow (Friday) with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

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why is it important

• Grossi's visit to Israel comes a few days before the convening of the IAEA Board of Governors next week in Vienna. Israel has been conducting a campaign in recent weeks calling for Iran to be condemned during the convention.

In the news

• Earlier this week, Grossi distributed to the member states of the IAEA Board of Governors two reports regarding the Iranian nuclear program that lit red lights in Washington and European capitals.

• The first report stated that Iran has so far produced about 43 kg of enriched uranium to a level of 60 percent. If Iran enriches this amount to a level of 90 percent it will be close to the amount of enriched uranium needed to assemble one nuclear bomb.

• The second report stated that Iran did not provide serious answers to UN inspectors' questions about the source of the uranium particles found at three undeclared sites in Iran where secretive nuclear activity was suspected.

Update

• Against the background of these two reports and against the background of the deadlock in the nuclear talks in Vienna, the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom decided to promote a condemnation decision against Iran during the Governing Council convening next week.

• The draft resolution will call on Iran to cooperate in not cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors regarding the investigation into the suspected sites.

• This will be the first time in two years that the IAEA Board of Governors has passed a condemnation decision against Iran. The previous decision also called on Iran to cooperate with UN inspectors on the suspicious sites.

• However the condemnation decision will not be of the highest severity, will not stipulate that Iran is not implementing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and will not address the issue to the UN Security Council.

Behind the Scenes

• The issue of the decision against Iran in the IAEA was one of the issues discussed on Tuesday during the convening of the Israeli-American Strategic Forum on Iran in the White House.

• In the week leading up to the White House talks, the Prime Minister's Office launched a political and media campaign on the subject centered on the claim that Iran had deceived UN inspectors regarding its nuclear program and the suspected sites.

• The campaign began with the publication of an article in the Wall Street Journal that included documents from the Iranian nuclear archive stolen by the Mossad. The documents showed that about 17 years ago Iran lied to UN inspectors about several sites they wanted to visit.

Fights the Iranian nuclear program.

Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

• A few days later, the Prime Minister's Office uploaded the original documents in Persian alongside their English translation and began distributing them to foreign journalists as well as on social media.

• Bennett shot a video in which he presented the documents to the camera and said they were proof that Iran was lying to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

• At the same time, a viral animated video was circulated on social media showing an Iranian officer who manages to hide atomic bombs from a UN inspector who fires at him with a magnifying glass.

What are they saying

• Following the talks of the Israeli delegation in the White House, a joint statement was issued stating that Israel and the United States are committed to coordinating their efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to deter Iran from continuing its aggression in the region.

• "The parties also discussed the economic and political steps to be taken to achieve these goals and reviewed the cooperation between the Israeli military and the US military," the joint statement said.

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