The International Atomic Energy Agency could soon lose the ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iranian authorities have begun dismantling 27 IAEA video cameras, used to monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities. This was announced on Thursday, June 9, the director general of the agency, Rafael Grossi, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
“There is a dismantling of 27 cameras in Iran,” he said at a press conference in Vienna.
At the same time, Grossi explained that the dismantling process will “take a while.” According to him, this does not mean that the IAEA will completely lose the ability to monitor Iranian nuclear facilities. “However, we are close to that point,” he added.
The head of the IAEA said that the demolition will be carried out, in particular, at facilities in Tehran, Natanz, Isfahan.
Answering a journalist’s question, Grossi said that in this way, about 40 monitoring cameras will continue to work in Iran.
Iran’s decision to dismantle some of the cameras came after the IAEA Board of Governors on Wednesday approved a resolution proposed by Western countries criticizing Iran for inadequate disclosure of information on the nuclear program. its.
In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, US, France and Iran signed a JCPOA. The deal includes the removal of sanctions against Iran in exchange for limiting its nuclear program as a guarantee that Tehran will not receive nuclear weapons.
In May 2018, former US President Donald Trump decided to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the agreement and reinstate severe sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a gradual reduction in its obligations under the agreement, lifting restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment.
It will be recalled that earlier in the United States they said that President Joe Biden was ready to lift sanctions on Iran under the JCPOA.
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