A resolution, adopted by thirty states sitting at the International Atomic Energy Agency, aims to put pressure on Tehran while the negotiations undertaken to relaunch the agreement on its nuclear activities patinant.
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This is a severe warning addressed to Iran, while the rescue of the agreement supposed to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons is deadlocked. The Council of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) voted, on Wednesday, June 8, in Vienna, a resolution condemning the lack of teheran cooperation in nuclear matters. This text, examined on the initiative of the United States and Europeans, notably criticizes the Iranian authorities for not having provided explanations concerning the presence of traces of uranium on three unconcluded sites. Thirty states sitting on the council voted the resolution. Russia and China have opposed it. India, Pakistan and Libya have abstained.
Conversely, the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom have welcomed the adoption of the text, of a strong symbolic significance. “The vote of this resolution by a very large majority by the Council of Governors of the IAEA today sends a clear message to Iran on the need it respects its obligations in terms of guarantees”, underline the four countries Western, in reference to the commitments made by Tehran within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
This resolution aims to put pressure on Tehran, while the negotiations undertaken nearly a year ago, in order to relaunch the JCPOA, the country’s nuclear activities agreement, are running empty to date. The American president, Joe Biden, had nevertheless made it one of his diplomatic priorities, in order to return to the unilateral withdrawal decided by his predecessor, Donald Trump, in 2018, to torpedo the agreement.
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For this purpose, the Biden administration said it was ready to lift a large part of the sanctions imposed on Iran because of its nuclear activities, in exchange for its return to the commitments made in 2015. A compromise seemed imminent At the start of the year, but the indirect discussions carried out between Wahington and Tehran have been blocking since. The United States refuses, in particular, to lighten the sanctions inflicted on the Guardians of the Revolutionary, to the Dam of Iran.
The negotiations have also suffered from the war in Ukraine, Moscow having for a time required to obtain large derogations from the massive sanctions taken by Westerners in response to the invasion of the neighboring country decided by Vladimir Putin, so that these measures do not hinder its economic cooperation with Iran. An arrangement on this point had to be negotiated.
In the meantime, Tehran continues, according to the Westerners, a support from the IEA in support, the enrichment of increasingly large quantities of uranium, a condition prior to the manufacture of a bomb. According to the experts, the country would already enrich enough uranium to move to the manufacture of a bomb, if it decided so.
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