Dubai, United Arab Emiraten (AP)-The President of Iran ordered the country on Wednesday to suspend his collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency after the American and Israeli air strikes had the most important nuclear facilities, probably the ability of the inspectors to follow the Tehrijk weapons that the Uranium of the Wapens.
However, President Masoud Pezeshkian's order contained no time schedules or details about what that suspension would entail. The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, however, has indicated in a CBS news interview that Tehran would still be willing to continue negotiations with the United States.
“I don't think the negotiations will restart so quickly,” said Araghchi, referring to Trump's comments that conversations can start in this week. However, he added: “The doors of diplomacy will never close.”
Printing tactics
In the past, IAEA inspections have limited IAEA inspections as a pressure in the negotiation with the West, although Tehran has now denied that there are immediate plans to resume conversations with the United States that were built up by the 12-day Iran-Israel war.
The Iranian state of television announced the command of Pezeshkian, which followed a law adopted by the parliament of Iran to suspend that cooperation. The bill already received the approval of the Constitutional Waakhond from Iran, the Guardian Council, on Thursday, and probably the support of the Supreme National Security Council of the country, those Pezeshkian chairmen.
“The government is obliged to immediately suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency under the treaty on the non -proliferation of nuclear weapons and the corresponding security agreement,” quoted national television. “This suspension remains in force until certain conditions are met, including the guaranteed safety of nuclear facilities and scientists.”
It was not immediately clear what that would mean for the IAEA, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations.
The IAEA Long, based in Vienna, has followed Iran's nuclear program. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Details remain unclear
It is not known how Iran will implement this suspension. Iran's theocractic government, there is room for the council to implement the bill if it deems it necessary. That means that everything that the legislators have asked may not be ready.
The movement of Iran, however, stops with what experts feared the most. They were worried that Tehran, in response to the war, could decide to fully terminate his collaboration with the IAEA, leave the nuclear non -proliferation agreement and run to a bomb. That treaty is that countries agree not to build or obtain nuclear weapons and enables the IAEA to carry out inspections to check whether countries have correctly declared their programs.
The nuclear deal of Iran 2015 with world powers, negotiated under the then US President Barack Obama, to enrich Uranium to 3.67% of the industry to feed a nuclear power plant, but far below the 90% threshold needed for the uranium of arms quality. It also drastically reduced Iran's stock, limited the use of centrifuges and relied on the IAEA to supervise compliance with Tehran through extra supervision. The IAEA served as the most important assessor of Iran's dedication to the deal.
But in his first term in 2018, US President Donald Trump unilaterally took care of the agreement, it was not difficult enough and did not respond to Iran's rocket program or the support for militant groups in the wider Midden -East. That played years of tensions in motion, including attacks at sea and on land.
Iran had enriched a maximum of 60%, a short, technical step away from the level of arms quality. It also has had enough of a stock to build multiple nuclear bombs if it chooses to do this. Iran has long shown that his nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the IAEA, Western intelligence services and others say that Tehran had an organized weapon program until 2003.
Suspension comes after Israel, American air strikes
Israeli air strikes, which started on 13 June, decimated the upper ranks of the powerful revolutionary guard of Iran and focused on his arsenal of ballistic missiles. The strikes also met Iran's nuclear locations, of which Israel claimed that he brought Tehran within the reach of a nuclear weapon.
Iran said that the Israeli attacks killed 935 'Iranian citizens', including 38 children and 102 women. Iran, however, has a long history of offering lower deadlines on unrest about political considerations.
The Washington -based group Human Rights Activists, which has provided detailed victim figures from several unrestrained rounds in Iran, has delivered the death toll on 1,190 people, including 436 citizens and 435 security power. The attacks injured another 4,475 people, the group said.
In the meantime, it seems that the Iranian officials now assess the damage of the American strikes that are performed at the three nuclear locations on 22 June, including those in Fordo, a site built under a mountain about 100 kilometers southwest of Tehran.
Satellite images of Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the Associated Press show Iranian officials in Fordo on Monday, who will probably investigate the damage caused by American bunker Busers. Trucks could be seen in the images, as well as at least one tap and an excavator at tunnels on the site. This corresponded to images that were recorded on Sunday by Maxar technologies that show the running work in the same way.
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Amir Vahdat contributed to this report from Tehran, Iran.
