Nuclear: a critical resolution calls on Iran to cooperate with the IAEA

The text was filed overnight from Monday to Tuesdaytold AFP a European diplomat, the information also confirmed by a second source.

This critical resolution, the first since June 2020, urges Iran to cooperate with l ‘IAEAfocused on the case of traces of enriched uranium found at three undeclared sites in the country.

The polling date is not yet known, but according to one of the diplomats, it should take place on Thursday.

In an opening statement, Monday in Vienna, of the meeting of the Council of Governors, the director general of the UN body, Rafael Grossi, regretted the lack of responses. technically convincing of the Islamic Republic.

I hope that by the end of this week’s deliberations, we will be committed to solving the problem once and for all, because it is not going away.underlined the officer in front of the press.

At the same time, negotiations to revive the 2015 pact, which should prevent Tehran from acquiring the atomic bomb, have been suspended since March. Iran denies having such an intention.

Washington withdrew from it in 2018 under Donald Trump’s presidency, deeming the text inadequate and immediately reinstated economic sanctions against Tehran, leading to the disintegration of the agreement.

The resolution avoids harsh condemnation of Iran for leaving the door open for dialogue, according to experts interviewed by AFP.

Fatal reaction in Tehran

Tehran criticized an initiative not constructivelikely to have a negative impact both on the overall direction of our cooperation with the IAEA and on the negotiationsaccording to Said Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

China and Russia, the two other states involved in the JCPOA (English acronym for agreement), have expressed their opposition.

Russian Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov on Twitter denounced an action counterproductivewhere Moscow will not interact in any way.