According to diplomatic sources, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany filed on the night of Monday June 6 to Tuesday June 7 with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a resolution admonishing Tehran for its lack of cooperation.
This critical resolution, the first since June 2020, urges Iran to ” cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), focusing on the case of traces of enriched uranium found at three undeclared sites in the country. The date of the vote is not yet known, but, according to one of the diplomats, it should take place on Thursday. The resolution avoids strongly condemning Iran in order to leave the door open to dialogue, according to experts interviewed by AFP.
In a statement at the opening Monday in Vienna of the meeting of the Board of Governors, the director general of the UN body Rafael Grossi had deplored the absence of answers ” technically credible of the Islamic Republic.
” I hope that at the end of the deliberations this week, we will commit to solving the problem once and for all because it is not going away “, had underlined the person in charge in front of the press.
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Attempts to resume negotiations
At the same time, negotiations to resuscitate the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s Nuclear Program) of 2015, supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring the atomic bomb, have been suspended since March. Iran denies having such intentions.
Tehran on Monday castigated an “unconstructive” initiative, likely to have “ a negative impact both on the general direction of our cooperation with the IAEA and on the negotiations “, according to Saïd Khatibzadeh, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. China and Russia, also involved in the 2015 deal and backers of Iran, have expressed their opposition.
(with AFP)