MOSCOW —
Iran wants stronger guarantees included in
a text put forward by the EU aiming to salvage Tehran’s landmark 2015 nuclear
deal with world powers, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said
Wednesday.
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“We are thinking about how to reach a strong
text on the issue of the guarantee, and to obtain stronger guarantees,” he told
a joint news conference in Moscow with his Russian counterpart
Sergei Lavrov.
“My colleagues are carefully examining the
text of the American side,” Amir-Abdollahian said of Washington’s response to
Tehran’s suggestions on the EU text that was submitted on August 8.
“We want to reinforce in the text the idea
that the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concentrates on its
technical task and moves away from its political role,” he said.
The US had been adamant that Tehran cooperate
with the IAEA to clear up suspicions about earlier work at three undeclared
sites.
In June, the IAEA’s board of governors
adopted a resolution censuring Iran for failing to adequately explain the
previous discovery of traces of enriched uranium at three sites not declared by
Tehran as having hosted nuclear activities.
On Monday, President
Ebrahim Raisi said
reviving the atomic deal would be pointless unless the UN nuclear watchdog put
an end to its probe of three undeclared sites in the Islamic republic.
The 2015 accord between Iran and six world
powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the US — gave Tehran
sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
Formally known as the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action, the agreement aimed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear
weapon — something it has always denied wanting to do.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the
deal under then president Donald Trump in 2018 and proceeded to reimpose biting
sanctions, prompting Tehran to pull back from its own commitments.
Last week, amid rising hopes of a revived
deal, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in an interview with CNN rejected the idea of
the agency closing its probe on the undeclared sites without receiving answers.
“When it comes to guarantees, resolving
outstanding issues related to the IAEA is also of serious concern to us,”
Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday.
“If we can reinforce the existing text,
reaching an agreement will not be far from being achieved,” he added.
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