- Iran confirms it might impose new restrictions on UN’s nuclear watchdog
- Says transfer got here after the US did not raise financial sanctions by a weekend deadline
- So-called “voluntary transparency measures”, together with snap inspections of web sites not underneath common monitoring — are additionally suspended.
TEHRAN: Iran confirmed on Tuesday mentioned that it might impose new restrictions on the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations after the US did not raise financial sanctions by a weekend deadline.
Interim preparations agreed in talks in Tehran on Sunday imply that the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company won’t be “flying blind” whereas “political discussions” on restoring a 2015 deal between Tehran and main powers go forward, its director Rafael Grossi has mentioned.
However whereas praising Grossi´s Eleventh-hour diplomacy, Washington known as on Tehran to “fully meet its verification and other nuclear non-proliferation commitments” underneath the deal whereas talks are underneath method.
The adjustments to the IAEA´s monitoring and inspection regime, which have been ordered by Iran´s conservative-dominated parliament final yr, are the most recent in a collection of retaliatory measures Iran has adopted in response to then US president Donald Trump´s 2018 withdrawal from the settlement.
“The implementation of the law began this morning,” Overseas Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif advised the official IRNA information company.
Recordings from monitoring gear that the IAEA put in at Iran´s nuclear websites to confirm its compliance will now be withheld by Tehran till President Joe Biden has lifted the crippling sanctions imposed by Trump.
So-called “voluntary transparency measures”, together with snap inspections of web sites not underneath common monitoring — are additionally suspended.
Zarif mentioned the adjustments would haven’t any main speedy affect on the work of the IAEA inspectors.
“The crux of this deal is that the data recorded on our nuclear programme … will be stored and not handed over to the IAEA,” Iran´s high diplomat mentioned.
The information “had never been supplied to the IAEA in real time but had been handed over on a daily or weekly basis,” he mentioned,
If talks on a US return to the nuclear deal drag on, that can change, nonetheless.
The Iranian Atomic Vitality Organisation has mentioned that underneath the brand new legislation, if there’s nonetheless no lifting of US sanctions after three months, it would begin erasing the recordings.
If the sanctions aren’t “fully lifted in the next three months”, the information will likely be “destroyed for good”, it mentioned.
Biden has signalled readiness to revive the nuclear deal however insists Iran first return to all its nuclear commitments.
Tehran calls for Washington take step one by scrapping the sanctions.
The Biden administration has mentioned it’s keen to hitch EU-led talks with Iran looking for a compromise.