Tehran: Iran has made the return of UN nuclear inspectors, saying that it does not mean that total cooperation has been resumed.
The authorities hinted in their place in a “new way” of working with the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), weeks after the ties froze due to Israeli and American mortal strikes in the country’s nuclear sites in June at the beginning of this year.
The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency began working on the Bushehr key nuclear site in southwest Iran, the nuclear guardian manager, Rafael Grossi said, the first team to enter the country since Tehran formally suspended cooperation with the UN agency last month.
“No final text has been approved in the new cooperation framework with the OIEA, and views are being exchanged,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, cited by state television.
The agency’s inspectors left Iran after Israel launched their unprecedented attack on June 13, hitting nuclear and military facilities, as well as residential areas and killing more than 1,000 people.
Later, Washington joined strikes in nuclear facilities in Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz.
Iran retaliates with missile attacks and drones that killed dozens in Israel. The fire between Iran and Israel has been extended since June 24.
Subsequently, I was suspended their cooperation with the OIEA, citing the agency’s failure to condemn Israeli and American attacks.
But on Wednesday, Grossi said the inspectors were “there now”, adding: “Today they are inspecting Bushehr.”
According to the law that suspends cooperation, inspectors can access Iranian nuclear sites only with the approval of the country’s main security agency, the Supreme National Security Council.
Tehran has repeatedly said that future cooperation with the agency will take “a new form.”
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said that the IEA inspectors would supervise the fuel replacement at the Bushehr nuclear energy plant.
He did not mention whether inspectors would be allowed to access other sites, including Fordo and Natanz, which were beaten during the war.
‘Fire test’
Grossi, on a visit to Washington, said the discussions on the inspection of other sites were underway without an immediate agreement.
“We continue the conversation to be able to go to all places, including the facilities that have been affected,” he said.
He said Iran cannot restrict inspectors only to “unattached facilities.”
“There is no letter inspection work.”
The return of the inspectors occurred after the Iranian diplomats held conversations with counterparts from Great Britain, France and Germany in Geneva on Tuesday.
Their second round of conversations since Israeli attacks included the discussion of European threats to trigger the reimposition of UN sanctions against Iran before they are permanently lifted in mid -October.
The window to trigger the so -called “Snapback Mechanism” of a 2015 dying nuclear agreement between Iran and the main powers closes on October 18.
During their previous meeting with Iran in July, the three European powers suggested extending the Snapback deadline if Tehran resumed negotiations with the United States and cooperation with the OIEA, Financial Times reported.
Later, I would dismiss the right of Europeans to extend the deadline, and said it was working with their allies, China and Russi, to avoid the reimposition of sanctions.
Iran’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karim Gharibadi, said Wednesday that if the snapback is triggered, “the path of interaction that we have now opened with the International Atomic Energy Agency will also be completely affected and will probably stop.”
On Tuesday, Russia distributed a draft resolution of the UN Security Council with the aim of delaying the deadline to trigger Snapback sanctions for six months, according to the text seen by AFP.
The Russian proposal does not establish previous conditions for the extent of the deadline.
The deputy director of the UN of Russia, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said that the updated proposal was designed to “give more space to breathe for diplomacy”, and added that he expected it to “be acceptable.”
“It will be a kind of fire test for those who really want to maintain diplomatic efforts, and for those who do not want any diplomatic solution, but they just want to pursue their own nationalist and selfish agendas against Iran,” he told the media.
