IAEA chief says Iran has few weeks left to revive nuclear diplomacy

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Iran’s nuclear reunification deal must happen within the next few weeks, DA atomic watchdog leader Rafael Grossi said Monday after Tehran resumed 20% of uranium enrichment and its parliament threatened to block made it available to UN inspectors in February.

“Obviously we don’t have many months ahead of us. We have weeks,” Grossi said in an interview for the Reuters Next conference.

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif inspect reactors at the Fordow nuclear plant

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Iran began enriching uranium to a 20% fine strength at the Fordow underground nuclear plant earlier this month in another breach of the nuclear deal with major powers since the U.S. withdrawal in 2018, possibly making complex efforts with US President Joe Biden to reassert the agreement.

His parliament passed a law in November calling on the government to suspend inspections of its nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency and step up uranium enrichment if U.S. sanctions are not lifted. to discount.

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IAEA Chief Executive Rafael Grossi

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An Iranian lawyer told Jan. 9 said it would give the incoming administration Biden, who will take up the post on Jan. 20, until February. 21 to reverse sanctions.

“I have to pay attention to it because it is the law,” Grossi said, adding that he believed the government of the Islamic Republic intended to implement it.

Grossi said Iran was progressing “very fast” in 20% enrichment and would be based on estimates that it would be able to reach about 10 kilograms per month at its facility in Fordow.

An Iranian cleric looks at a home-built surface to surface missiles displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in a military display marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2019 An Iranian cleric looks at a home-built surface to surface missiles displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in a military display marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2019

Iranian clerk inspects home-built surface to surface missiles on display at Imam Khomeini’s Great Mosque in Tehran

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Uranium is refined to 20% fine purity far above the 5% normally considered suitable for the production of civilian nuclear energy and shortens the potential path of Iran to 90% purity necessary for a nuclear bomb. Iran denies any intention to impose enrichment on arms.

“There needs to be a clear understanding of how the original terms and provisions of the JCPOA (nuclear treaty) will be recycled,” Grossi said.

Tehran began to oppose the 2015 treaty in 2019 in a step-by-step response when President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 and to the resumption of suspended U.S. sanctions fon aonta.

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