Iran is threatening to cancel a deal it reached with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over inspections if the nuclear watchdog’s board adopts a US-led resolution condemning the agreement.
As required by a law passed by Iran’s parliament, Tehran stopped voluntarily complying with the Additional Protocol this week, an aspect of the JCPOA that allowed the IAEA to conduct snap inspections.
Last Sunday, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi struck a three-month deal with Iran’s government to soften the impact of ending the Additional Protocol, a deal the nuclear watchdog is happy with. But the US isn’t happy with the agreement and is calling on the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors to condemn it through a resolution at a scheduled meeting next week.
In a paper sent to the IAEA, the US said it wants a resolution to “express the Board’s deepening concern with respect to Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA.”
Since the US withdrew from the JCPOA, Iran was not obligated to continue complying with the Additional Protocol or any other limits set by the deal. So naturally, Iran is rejecting the US’s call for a resolution and threatening to scrap the deal reached with Grossi if it is adopted.
“Iran perceives this move as destructive and considers it as an end to the Joint Understanding of 21 February 2021 between the Agency and the Islamic Republic of Iran,’ Iran said in its own paper.
If the US resolution is adopted and Iran scraps the deal, it would just be another example of pressure from Washington and its allies that forces Iran to take steps they later complain about. The law requiring Iran to stop complying with the Additional Protocol was passed in the wake of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian scientist who was killed in an apparent Israeli plot.
Sleepy Joe’s playin’ checkers while Zarif is playing chess. This is gonna get embarrassing for us, isn’t it?
and Donald the cause of all of this was playing peek-a-boo with the mirror in the corner!
Checking on the hair. As his hair was a chief state asset, he had to keep good track of it.
At least it was his hair, and he wasn’t planting “plugs” and sniffing the ladies’ hair like the Joe was.
The nuclear deal was always a farce. The farce has now lost its purpose.
Why Iran is even entertaining g the idea of negotiating with USA on this issue or nay other issue?
“Since the US withdrew from the JCPOA, Iran was not obligated to continue complying with the Additional Protocol or any other limits set by the deal.”
Unlike neocon talking points, you can say this over and over again but it won’t penetrate the thick skulls of the idiots in Washington.
Or some commenters here
“. . .pressure from Washington and its allies that forces Iran to take steps they later complain about.”. . .That’s a good point.
Looking on the bright side, Iran continues to set the standard for other countries to follow when they are beset with US pressures. China and Russia, for example, now that they are hit with sanctions such as Iran has been dealt for forty years.
IAEA cameras will be shut off in less than 3 months…!
>US says ready to reengage in ‘meaningful diplomacy’ with Iran
>Iran’s Foreign Ministry: Time not suitable for unofficial meeting . . .here
“The way forward is quite clear. The US must end its illegal and unilateral sanctions and return to its JCPOA commitments. This issue neither needs negotiation, nor a resolution by the Board of Governors [of the International Atomic Energy Agency].”
It’s time for US action, not US talk (which is cheap).
To Everything There is a Season
…a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.…Ecclesiastes 3:7