‘Iran-IAEA ties based on NPT, safeguards’
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has rejected claims that the organization has breached the law concerning its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, saying the relationship is restricted to the safeguards agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“Our relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are based on the safeguards agreement and the NPT. No more, no less,” Mohammad Eslami told a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Press TV wrote.
He also dismissed accusations that the AEOI has violated a 2020 anti-sanction law in its March deal with the IAEA on bilateral engagements.
The law, or the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions, was approved by the Iranian parliament in December 2020 in a bid to counter illegal sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and its Western allies. It requires the Iranian administration to restrict the IAEA inspections and accelerate the development of the country’s nuclear program beyond the limits set under the 2015 US-abandoned nuclear deal.
Iran has repeatedly voiced its readiness to resolve differences with the IAEA within a framework of constructive and mutual interaction and technical cooperation.
On Tuesday, Eslami announced that Iran has for the first time manufactured a nuclear reactor simulator, applauding the feat as a monumental achievement in the field of high tech.
The simulator is designed to manage the control chamber temperature and has a thermal capacity of 100 megawatts.