The United States urged Monday, February 22 Iran to submit “completely” to the control of its nuclear activities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after the temporary agreement reached between the Agency and Tehran.
US diplomacy spokesman Ned Price praised the mission to Tehran of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, “while reiterating the call to Iran to fully respect its commitments in terms of verification and nuclear non-proliferation ”. Following the mission, Iran and the Agency announced on Sunday a “temporary” agreement to maintain surveillance of Iranian nuclear activities, although reduced, until talks begin between the parties. international agreement.
The 2015 agreement at the center of tensions
The agreement signed by Tehran in Vienna in 2015 with the great powers (United States, China, Russia, Germany, France, United Kingdom) as well as the EU aims to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring the atomic bomb, with strict limits to its nuclear program supposed to remain exclusively civilian and peaceful. The international community had in return lifted all its economic sanctions against Iran.
US President Joe Biden has promised to join this agreement again, but on the condition that Tehran first reverts to respecting the commitments, it has begun to break away from in response to the United States’ sanctions under Donald Trump.
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