Iran announced on Wednesday that it has disabled two cameras belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor its nuclear activities as part of its confrontation with Western countries and the United States.
And the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran issued a statement that led to the fact that “The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, even if on a large scale. Unfortunately, the agency did not ignore this cooperation, which is due to the goodwill of Iran but also considered it their duty towards Iran.” IRNA news agency. And the Iranian organization said in a statement that “the surveillance cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency were turned off at one of Iran’s nuclear facilities.” This statement was made after how the United States and three European countries that are parties to the Iranian nuclear deal (UK, France and Germany) submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday evening, Tuesday, the text of a resolution criticizing Iran’s lack of cooperation with the UN body. the text is planned during the meeting of the Board of Governing Agencies and the UN, which began on Monday in Vienna and will last until Friday. The text calls on Iran to cooperate fully with the agency and is the first of its kind since a similar measure was taken against Tehran in June 2020.
For his part, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, confirmed that “Iran does not conduct any secret and undocumented nuclear activities and unidentified objects or activities”, considering that “the documents presented are fake, and this is a political move to exert maximum pressure to Tehran,” IRNA reported. More than a year ago, Iran and the powers that joined the 2015 agreement (France, Great Britain, Germany, Russia and China) began negotiations in Vienna, in which the United States indirectly participated, in order to return Washington to the agreement and lift sanctions, it imposed on Tehran after its unilateral withdrawal from him in exchange for the fulfillment by the latter of his obligations. The talks were formally suspended in March, with stakeholders confirming that an agreement was close to being reached, but disagreements remain between Washington and Tehran, most notably the latter’s request to remove the name of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards from the US list of foreign nations. “terrorist” organizations, a request that Washington refused to grant.