Iran contends that the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA)’s) inspections do not indicate that full cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog has resumed.
Iran’s foreign minister reported on Wednesday that IAEA inspectors have entered Iran with the country’s Supreme National Security Council’s approval.
According to Abbas Araghchi, “the new cooperation framework with the IAEA has not yet been approved, and views are being exchanged,” according to comments cited by the state broadcaster.
According to him, “the inspectors of the international agency must be in charge of the changing of the fuel in the Bushehr nuclear reactor,” according to the state news agency ICANA.
Iran halted communication with the organization after its 12-day conflict with Israel in June, with Tehran blaming the IAEA’s failure to condemn Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear sites. The attacks did not specifically target Bushehr.
A team of inspectors is “back in Iran,” according to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who confirmed on Tuesday.
As you may well be aware, Iran has a lot of facilities. In an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday, Grossi told Fox News, “Some people were attacked, some were not.”
We are currently enquiring about what kind of “practical modalities” can be put into place to speed up the start of our work there.
Tehran wants to avert the so-called snapback sanctions that European powers have threatened to reimpose under the 2015  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, which Iran held on Tuesday in Geneva.
Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, warned Europe’s top three countries that new sanctions will be imposed.
Parties to the 2015 agreement, including the UK, France, and Germany, have threatened to use the “snapback mechanism” by the end of August.
In the upcoming days, both sides will continue to discuss nuclear issues.
Since the end of the June war, which started with an unprecedented Israeli surprise attack that targeted senior military officials and nuclear facilities, the second round of discussions with European diplomats took place on Tuesday.
Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the United States were halted by the conflict.
Israel claims to have launched the attacks to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, a goal Tehran has repeatedly denied, insisting that its program is purely for domestic purposes, such as energy production.
Source: Aljazeera
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