The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, emphasized on Monday that the disconnection of the international inspectors' cameras at Iran's nuclear sites, which was carried out about a month ago, will continue as long as there is no agreement between Iran and the powers.
As a reminder, Iran disconnected the International Atomic Energy Agency's photographic equipment, including about 30 cameras, at a number of nuclear sites in June, in retaliation for the IAEA's harsh condemnation against the Islamic Republic. The condemnation stemmed from Iran not cooperating with the investigation into undeclared sites In Iran, where apparently there was nuclear activity and possibly even the development of bomb components, and also in view of the difficulties that Iran is piling up with regards to the supervision of the declared sites, as it committed to in the nuclear agreement.
"We will not activate the IAEA's cameras until the other side returns to the nuclear agreement," said Islami on Monday, thus effectively tying the activity of the inspectors, which is not directly related to the nuclear talks, to the fate of the talks between Iran and the powers.
The eighth round of talks to renew the nuclear agreement has been officially continuing in Vienna for about six months, but has not come to an end even though the technical clauses of the agreement have been drafted almost in full.
The delay is due to the fact that Iran has made political demands that are not directly related to the nuclear agreement, such as various economic benefits from the US and a demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations, and the White House responded that it would not agree to them in any way.
Recently, the Director General of the IAEA warned that Iran is "racing" its nuclear program because of the high rate of enrichment of uranium and also the degree to which it is enriched.
A senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei also admitted about a week ago that Iran has the "technical ability to assemble an atomic bomb" even though it has not yet decided to cross the necessary threshold (ie enriching uranium to a military level).
Recently the American administration said that apparently there is a dispute within Iran regarding whether it should join the nuclear agreement, and this is why it is not ready to be flexible on the political issues, among other things with the understanding that if the talks continue indefinitely, the Security Council will not impose severe sanctions on it
On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron told his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, that Tehran must make a "clear decision" on where to go.
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