Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi warned on Wednesday that Iran is trying to undermine the ability of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) to monitor the development of its nuclear program, all of which seek to weaken sustainability. in the Middle East.
Ashkenazi’s comments follow Tehran’s announcement Monday that it intends to restrict international access to its nuclear sites, as well as block some safeguards put in place by the nuclear watchdog to ensure peaceful use of its nuclear equipment. -all nuclear material.
“Iran’s policy is a testament to its commitment to its desire to continue to develop nuclear capabilities in secret,” Ashkenazi said. “Israel sees this step as a threat, and it must not pass it. without response. Israel will never allow Iran to take control of its nuclear weapons capability. “
Ashkenazi said banning the IAEA investigation “should be a wake-up call for those who have stopped so far from responding confidently and practically to Iran’s ongoing breaches of its international obligations.”
Lior Haiat, criticized for the Foreign Ministry, further warned that “Iran continues to accumulate rich uranium, defraud and undermine its ambitions for nuclear weapons. “
“Iran’s damage to the special inspection equipment of its nuclear facilities and the further exclusion of the implementation protocol are major steps that cross all the red lines laid by the international community. national involvement, and which is completely reducing its content nuclear contract, “Haiat said below.
Since 2019, Iran has been breaching Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal in response to former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the treaty the previous year as Washington re-imposes sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
These breaches include uranium enrichment of up to 20%, with Iran’s Director General Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying Iran will increase enrichment by up to 60% “based on the country’s needs,” – despite the agreement states that Tehran can enrich uranium up to no more than 3.67%, as uranium metal can be used to make the heart of an atom bomb.
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Iranian Atomic Energy Group President Ali-Akbar Salehi and International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi
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The IAEA also found uranium residues at four previously unpublished nuclear sites in Iran.
The report concluded that Iran carried out unproven activity with nuclear materials at at least four different sites, and did not report on the current location of the nuclear materials.
Grossi added in his report that Iran must “provide answers” to the nuclear discoveries found at those sites and said the process with Tehran has “not yielded good results for now.”
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. is concerned that “Iran is moving in the wrong direction. It is moving further away from its nuclear barriers. “
“Our goal in all of this is to seek a outcome in which Iran and the United States begin to live up to their commitments under the JCPOA. Those steps by Ioran, the steps we spoke to, the Iranians spoke to in public, are clearly moving in the wrong direction, ”he said.