ISFAHAN, IRAN – MARCH 30: A worker walks inside a uranium bomb shelter near Isfahan, one … [+]
Since Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the other signatories to the Deal have been trying to keep the essential parts.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran said this week that they had agreed to “further strengthen their cooperation and build mutual trust” to facilitate the full implementation of Iran’s Integral Safeguards Agreement and the Additional Protocol, which has been provisionally applied by Iran since early 2016.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi traveled to Tehran earlier this week to discuss access for IAEA inspectors to Iran’s nuclear sites with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
In a joint statement issued on August 25, the IAEA and Iran stated that, following intensive bilateral consultations, they had reached an agreement on the resolution of the protection implementation issues specified by the IAEA.
Iran voluntarily provides the IAEA with access to the designated nuclear sites designated by the IAEA and facilitates IAEA verification activities to resolve these issues. Dates for IAEA access and verification activities have been agreed, they said, without naming them.
While not the Iran Nuclear Deal per se, the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the Additional Protocol cover most of what was in it, especially after we got most of what we wanted anyway.
The Iran Nuclear Deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), hammered in Switzerland by the P5 + 1 group led by the United States in 2015, worked quite well when America pulled out.
Iran had shipped almost all of its highly explosive supplies, more than 12 tons of enriched uranium, last month. Iran met with thousands of centrifuges needed to enrich uranium for an atomic bomb. And Iran removed the core of its heavy water reactor at Arak, and filled it with concrete. That reactor could have produced plutonium for the other type of atomic bomb.
Iran giving up both paths to a nuclear weapon, both uranium and plutonium, was no small thing. And for these actions, Iran would get about $ 60 billion of its own money released to itself. Some Iranian citizens would be removed from blacklists by the US government, Europe would be allowed to trade in software, gold and metals, and transportation equipment, and Iran would be allowed to rejoin the international banking system and sell oil on the open. mark.
Saudi Arabia was not at all happy with this deal and neither was the Republican Party. Thus, it is scurrying through Trump.
But Iran does not really want a nuclear weapon, just the respect that comes along with making one. Nuclear weapons have brought on its own set of headaches that Iran had determined it was not worth. But America pulls out of the Deal puts them in a strange position. Its radical side wants to start making weapons again, but its more ridiculous side wants the financial relief and a kind of economic normality.
Workers clean oil leaks from pipelines aboard an offshore oil rig in the Salman Oil of the Persian Gulf … [+]
They will probably do both to a height. But Iran wants to comply with the IAEA. If nothing else, to sell oil openly from its hefty reserves in the world market and not just hide it from players like China, Russia and Turkey who have cut their sales by 80%.
The IAEA verification activities agreed upon by Iran this week is the standard IAEA verification practice as implemented for all its Member States on an equal basis and without discrimination.
“In the context of Resolution GOV / 2015/72, adopted by the Council of Governors on 15 December 2015, the IAEA and Iran recognize that these security implementation issues are exclusively related to nuclear material and activities subject to security under the Comprehensive Security Agreement and Additional Protocol, “the statement said.
“In this current context, based on analysis of available information to the IAEA, the IAEA has no further questions to Iran and further requests for access to locations other than those declared by Iran under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the Additional Protocol,” it added.
The IAEA stated that it will continue to consider the security of Iran through the protection of all confidential information in accordance with the IAEA Statute, the relevant provisions of the Comprehensive Protection Agreement and the Additional Protocol, and IAEA Confidentiality Regulations, Standards and Procedures.
In June, the IAEA Board of Governors adopted a resolution calling on Iran to cooperate fully with the IAEA in implementing its NPT Security Agreement and Additional Protocol, and without delay to comply with IAEA requirements.
Last week, the United States asked the United Nations Security Council to reinstate sanctions against Iran that were lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but it was the United States that broke the agreement, not Iran, so it would be hypocritical, and illegal, to snap up on these sanctions again.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Grossi’s visit was not related to this snapback. But … True?
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