Iran Press/ Europe: Permanent Representative of Russia to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, in a tweet on Tuesday, said that today the IAEA BoG would begin to consider Iran's nuclear issue.
Today the #IAEA BoG will start consideration of the agenda item entitled "Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of #Iran in light of #UNSC resolution 2231 (2015)".
In relevant remarks, the spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, rejected a recent report by the IAEA director general about three undeclared sites and said that monitoring of the sites would resume when the sanctions are lifted, and all the parties to the JCPOA abide by their obligations under the deal.
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Earlier, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general, who was in New York to participate in the 10th Conference to Review the Non-Proliferation Treaty, said in a press conference that the Iranian nuclear program is progressing very, very rapidly.
Meanwhile, according to a report by Reuters, Western powers are lobbying other states on the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board to jointly pressure Iran to give the agency the answers on alleged uranium traces, diplomats said on Tuesday.
At its last quarterly meeting in June, the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution expressing "profound concern" that the traces remain unexplained due to insufficient cooperation by Iran and calling on Tehran to engage with the watchdog "without delay."
Rather than pass a new resolution at this week's board meeting, the four countries behind June's answer - the United States, Britain, France, and Germany - have prepared a joint statement reaffirming support for that text, hoping that many other countries will also sign onto it.
In 2018, then-U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 deal and reimposed U.S. sanctions, spurring Iran to start breaching the deal's nuclear curbs and reviving the U.S., Arab and Israeli fears that it might be trying to develop an atomic bomb. Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons.
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