Iran to open a new enrichment installation after censorship by United Nations Watchdog – National
The UN Wornndog Council of Wornndog Governors Thursday has officially found that Iran does not comply with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, a decision that could lead to new tensions and trigger an effort to restore the United Nations sanctions against Tehran later this year.
Iran reacted immediately, saying that it will establish a new enrichment installation “in a secure location” and that “other measures are also planned”.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond to this political resolution,” said the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Iran’s atomic energy organization in a joint statement.
US President Donald Trump had previously warned that Israel or America could carry out air strikes targeting Iranian nuclear installations if negotiations failed-and some American staff and their families began to leave the region above tensions, which before a new series of discussions on the United States on Sunday in Oman. In Israel, the United States Embassy has ordered employees of the US government and their families to stay in the Tel Aviv region on security problems.
Nineteen countries of the Board of Directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which represents the members of the agency, voted for the resolution, according to diplomats who spoke under the cover of anonymity to describe the outcome of the closed doors.
Russia, China and Burkina Faso opposed it, he abstained and two did not vote.
In the draft resolution observed by the Associated Press, the Council of Governors renews Iran to provide “without delay” responses in a long -standing survey in the traces of uranium found in several places that Tehran has not declared as nuclear sites.
Western officials suspect that traces of uranium could provide additional evidence that Iran had a secret nuclear weapon program until 2003.
The resolution was proposed by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.
Iran lists the stages of reprisals for the vote of the AIEA
Addressing Iranian state television after the vote, the spokesperson for Iran’s atomic energy organization said that his agency had immediately informed the IEA of “specific and effective” actions that Tehran would take.
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“One is the launch of a third secure site” for enrichment, said spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi. He did not develop the place, but the leader of the organization Mohammad Eslami later described the site as “already built, prepared and located in a safe and invulnerable place”.
Iran has two underground sites in Fordo and Natanz and built tunnels in the mountains near Natanz since the Israeli sabotage attacks have targeted this installation.
The other step would be to replace the old centrifuges for advances in Fordo. “The involvement of this is that our production of enriched materials will increase considerably,” said Kamalvandi.
According to the draft resolution, “the many failures of Iran to comply with its obligations since 2019 to provide the agency with complete and timely cooperation concerning nuclear materials and unsuccessful activities in several unorganized locations in Iran … constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its guarantee agreement.”
Under these obligations, which are part of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Iran is legally required to declare all nuclear and activities and allow IEA inspectors to verify that nothing is diverted from peaceful uses.
The draft resolution also reveals that “the inability … of the IAEA to ensure that the nuclear program of Iran is exclusively peaceful gives rise to questions which are in the jurisdiction of the United Nations Security Council, as the Organe, the main responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
The draft resolution made a direct reference to Iran’s American talks, highlighting its “support for a diplomatic solution to the problems posed by the Iranian nuclear program, including talks between the United States and Iran, leading to an agreement that responds to all international concerns related to Iran’s nuclear activities, encouraging all parties to be constructive in diplomacy.”
Another chance for Iran to cooperate with IAEA
A senior Western diplomat last week described resolution as a “serious step”, but added that Western nations “do not close the door to diplomacy on this issue”. However, if Iran does not cooperate, an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors of the IAEA will probably be held in summer, during which another resolution could be adopted which refers the question to the Security Council, said the diplomat on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the question with the media.
The three European nations have threatened several times in the past to reintegrate or “snapback”, sanctions that have been lifted within the framework of the Iranian nuclear agreement if Iran does not provide “technically credible” answers to the questions of the UN nuclear guard dog.
In a joint statement to the Council of Governors of the AIAA, the three European nations said that they “will spare no effort to work towards a diplomatic solution”, but added that without a satisfactory agreement, they would “plan to trigger the SNAP mechanism to deal with threats to international peace and security resulting from the Iran nuclear program”.
The power to restore these sanctions by the complaint of any member of the original nuclear agreement of 2015 expires in October, putting the West on a clock to exert pressure on Tehran on its program before losing this power.
The resolution occurs on the heels of the so-called “full report” of the IAEA which was broadcast among the Member States last weekend. In the report, the United Nations’s nuclear guard dog said Iran’s cooperation with the agency was “far from being satisfactory” with regard to traces of uranium discovered by agency inspectors in several places in Iran.
One of the sites became publicly known in 2018, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed it to the United Nations and described it as a clandestine nuclear warehouse hidden in a carpet cleaning plant. Iran denied this, but in 2019, IEA inspectors detected the presence of traces of uranium there as well as on two other sites.
–Gambrell has brought in Dubai United Arab Emirates. The writer Associated Press Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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