(NEW: Background information on keeping the IAEA were added)
Tehran (dpa -Afx) – Iran wants to temporarily suspend the cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Parliament in Tehran decided this, as the state broadcaster Irib reported. Two important bodies still have to agree: the Iranian security council and the guardian council – an influential Islamic body in the state. The Security Council is the most important political decision -making body in the country, which is led by religious leader Ajatollah Ali Chamenei.
According to the decision, the country does not want to let IAEA inspectors into the country until the “security” of the nuclear systems is guaranteed. To do this, the organization must condemn the attacks of the United States and Israel on the nuclear systems and recognize the Iranian nuclear program, said Parliament President Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf.
According to recent information from the IAEA, there are still inspectors in the country. IAEA boss Rafael Grossi has emphasized several times since the attacks on Iran started that nuclear facilities should never become a target due to the risk of serious radiological accident. However, neither he nor the Governor Council of the IAEA have sentenced Israel or the United States for their attacks.
After the attacks on the Iranian nuclear program, the IAEA wants to verify the whereabouts of almost gun -to -do uranium. The international authority in Vienna plays a central role in monitoring the Iranian nuclear program. She is responsible for ensuring that Iran only uses civilian, peaceful nuclear technology – and does not develop any nuclear weapons. In recent years, however, Iran had increasingly restricted access to IAEA inspectors.
Sharp criticism from Tehran on the IAEA
IAAA had sharply criticized the IAEA after the US attacks on nuclear systems in the course of the war with Israel and accused the organization of inactivity. The attacks were “under the indifference or even participation” of the IAEA. Iran’s nuclear organization said that despite the “malignant conspiracies of the enemies” Iran’s nuclear program is not stopped. The IAEA is also considered a control body of the nuclear weapons locking contract (NPT).
“For years we have tried to show the world that we are committed to the nuclear weapons blocking contract and that it is accordingly implemented (…) Unfortunately, this contract was neither able to protect the country’s country nor the country’s civilian nuclear program,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghtschi as justification according to Irib.
IAEA boss: Atomic inspectors must continue work in Iran
IAEA boss Grossi had recently asked Tehran to resume the cooperation with his inspectors. This is a “key to a successful diplomatic agreement to finally invest the dispute over the Iranian atomic activities”, Grossi was cited in an IAEA campaign on Tuesday evening.
More than 400 kilograms of uranium
According to an IAEA report, Iran has more than 400 kilograms of uranium, among other things, with an almost armed degree of purity of 60 percent. So far, the uranium had been produced in enrichment plants in Natans and Fordo. According to diplomats, some nuclear weapons could be manufactured if the material was further enriched to 90 percent. Tehran insists that they do not want to build nuclear weapons, but in many countries there was a worry that the Islamic Republic is getting closer and closer to the ability to build nuclear weapons.
Iran also questioned the international rules against the spread of nuclear weapons. The attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities “put a fundamental and irreparable blow on the existing legal system,” said Ambassador Resa Nadschafi on the sidelines of a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
The pact prohibits countries without nuclear arsenal to produce or purchase such weapons. At the same time, the agreement guarantees all states the right to be able to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes./APO/DP/MIS