TEHRAN: A decision tabled by Western international locations to censure Iran’s nuclear program on the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company “will weaken and disrupt” interactions between the UN physique and Tehran, it warned forward of the vote on Thursday (Nov 21).
Paris, Berlin, London and Washington have formally submitted a textual content condemning Iran for its alleged lack of cooperation with the company and its nuclear observers.
A proper vote is scheduled for in a while Thursday on the UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors assembly at its Vienna headquarters.
The tabling of the decision comes a week after a visit to Iran by the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi.
“This inappropriate motion of the three European international locations to concern a decision towards Iran will solely weaken and disrupt interactive processes between the company and Iran,” Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned in an announcement carried by the international ministry.
As an instance this concept, the reformist newspaper Sazandegi places on its entrance web page a photomontage of Araghchi and Grossi with their backs turned to at least one one other.
The Iranian deputy international minister for authorized and worldwide affairs Kazem Gharibabadi mentioned on X on .Wednesday that the three European countries were using the IAEA as a “political tool”.
In response to the ultimate model of the textual content seen by AFP, Western powers are asking for a “complete report” to be issued by Grossi “on the newest” by spring 2025.
The report additionally calls for “credible technical solutions” for the presence of unexplained uranium traces discovered at two undeclared websites.
