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Russia: Anti-Iran resolution at IAEA ‘will not bring positive results’
In a post on X, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that the June session of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will start on Monday and he expects a tense discussion on Iran’s nuclear program.
Ulyanov said that the United States and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement plan to table a draft resolution against Iran at the Monday’s meeting.
“For sure, it will not bring positive results”, the Russian official said.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday warned the three European countries against their move, calling it a "strategic mistake."
“After years of good cooperation with the (International Atomic Energy Agency) IAEA—resulting in a resolution which shut down malign claims of a ‘possible military dimension’ (PMD) to Iran's peaceful nuclear program—my country is once again accused of ‘non-compliance’,” Araghchi said on X.
The three European countries plan to submit the draft resolution to the IAEA Board of Governors today, creating a window to trigger the snapback of all the UN sanctions on Tehran before the mechanism expires in October. The resolution would accuse Iran of failing to meet its obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The move comes amid ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the US, which have been started on April 12.
The two countries have held five rounds of negotiations mediated by Oman to resolve a decades-old dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
In recent weeks, Tehran and Washington have clashed over the issue of uranium enrichment, which Washington says must be brought to zero. Tehran maintains its nuclear program is exclusively for civilian purposes and views its enrichment industry as a red line.
On Sunday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS that Washington is seriously intent on concluding a deal with Iran.
"These days, we are noting Washington’s much more serious intent toward concluding a deal with Tehran on mutually acceptable terms, allowing to avoid a crisis, having removed suspicions and prejudices with regard to peaceful nuclear development in the Islamic Republic of Iran," he noted.
Ryabkov pointed out that Russia exerts active efforts on assisting in seeking a resolution between Washington and Tehran.