The IAEA advocates finding "common solutions" to differences over Iran's nuclear program

MADRID, 26 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, advocated this Monday for finding "common solutions" to resolve the differences over Iran's nuclear program, amid talks to try to reactivate the agreement nuclear power of 2015, after Tehran has expressed its reservations on various points of the latest proposal presented by the European Union (EU), which is acting as mediator.

"The agency remains ready to resume contacts with Iran without delay to resolve these issues. We have to find common solutions to the problems, since they will not go away if we do not resolve them collaboratively," he said.

Thus, he lamented that the body's verification work on Tehran's commitments to the nuclear agreement has been "seriously affected" by the decision of the authorities to stop applying them, including the additional protocol, due to the decision to withdraw from the pact unilaterally in 2018.

"In the event of a full restart of Iran's implementation of its nuclear commitments under the agreement, the agency will need to address the knowledge gap about what took place while the surveillance and monitoring equipment was not operational," he recalled. , before acknowledging that "there will be considerable challenges in confirming consistency with the situation prior to February 21, 2021 on Iran's declared inventory of centrifuges and heavy water."

Grossi has also indicated that the agency "has made efforts to interact with Iran to resolve pending issues related to the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin in three undeclared facilities." "Since June, Iran has not interacted with the agency, so these problems have not been resolved and we are not in a position to give guarantees that the Iranian program is exclusively peaceful," he concluded.

Iranian authorities on September 8 rejected the latest IAEA report on the situation, saying "it is a repetition of previous unfounded issues." Also, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behruz Kamalvandi, reiterated that the "peaceful" Iranian nuclear program "has been the most transparent so far."