Iran has yet to fully honor its recent commitments to international nuclear inspectors. This is evident from a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Wednesday. In March, during talks in Tehran, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi negotiated that his agency would again be able to monitor the country’s nuclear program more closely and that it would receive information about previously classified nuclear facilities.
In April and May, Iran allowed the IAEA to install cameras and meters to monitor uranium enrichment, according to the non-public report available to the German news agency. However, the IAEA has no access to the camera recordings and the measuring equipment has not yet been calibrated. Grossi therefore called for a “sustained and consistent” expansion of supervision.
The IAEA went one step further by clearing up open questions about classified past nuclear activities at three plants. Iran had provided explanations for one of the systems, which is why this part of the question complex is closed for now, it said. Details of the other two factories remain unclear.
Iran produced uranium with near-weapons-grade purity
In addition, Grossi reported that Iran has continued to produce additional uranium near weapons-grade purity in recent months: among other things, the country has increased its 60 percent uranium by nearly 27 kilograms to 114 kilograms.
To counter the construction of Iranian nuclear weapons, several countries, including Germany, signed an agreement with Tehran in 2015. Iran’s nuclear program was curtailed in exchange for Western sanctions being lifted. But the United States, led by President Donald Trump, withdrew from the pact in 2018. Thereafter, Tehran gradually broke its obligations, for example through higher quality uranium enrichment or restrictions on IAEA inspectors.
Source: Krone
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