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On Thursday, the UN Nuclear Governors’ Council officially revealed that Iran was not in line with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, a step that could lead to further tensions and launch an effort to restore the United Nations sanctions on the technical sanctions on the technicians later this year.
Iran immediately responded, saying it would create a new enrichment equipment in a “safe place” and that “other measures are planned”.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond to this political resolution,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the Iranian nuclear organization said in a joint statement.
US President Donald Trump had previously warned that Israel or America could take air strikes to Iran’s nuclear weapons if the talks failed-and some American staff and their families have begun to leave the region over the tension that comes ahead of the new Iranian and US talks on Sunday in Oman. In Israel, the US Embassy ordered American government employees and their families to remain in the Tel Aviv area for security problems.
Nineteen countries voted the resolution to the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, representing the countries of the agency, said diplomats who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the result of a closed door vote.
Russia, China and Burkina Faso objected to it, 11 abstentions and two did not vote.
The Associated Press’s visible resolution project, the Heads of Managers, is re -inviting Iran to answer “immediately” in the long -term investigation of Uranus Foot, which was found in several places that Tehran has not declared nuclear weapons.
Western officials suspect that uranium traces could provide additional evidence that Iran had a secret nuclear program by 2003.
The resolution was nominated by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the US.
Iran lists revenge measures for the IAEA vote
Speaking to Iran’s national television after the vote, a spokesman for the Iranian nuclear organization said his agency immediately informed the SAEA of “special and effective” activities to be taken by Tehran.
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“One of them is the opening of a third safe place”, said spokesman Behrouz Kamalwand. He did not specify the location, but the organization’s main Mohammad Eslami later described the site as “already built, prepared and located in a secure and invulnerable place.”
Iran has two underground places for Fordo and Natanz and has built tunnels in the mountains near Natanz because of the suspicion of Israeli’s sabotage attacks on this opportunity.
The second step would be to replace the old centrifuge advanced Fordo. “This means that the production of our enriched materials will increase significantly,” Kamalwand said.
According to the draft resolution: “Iran’s many failures to support its obligations since 2019 to ensure full and timely cooperation between the Agency for undeclared nuclear material and actions in several undeclared places in Iran… which is not to comply with the obligations under its protection agreement.”
Under these obligations, which are part of the nuclear weapons non -proliferation agreement, Iran has a legal obligation to declare all nuclear material and action and allow IAEA inspectors to make sure that none of them is redirected from peaceful use.
The draft resolution also shows that IAEA “Failure… to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is only calm, raises questions that are within the competence of the United Nations Security Council, as the organs, which are the main responsibility for maintaining international peace and security”.
The resolution project directly referred to the US -Iran’s talks, emphasizing its “support for Iran’s nuclear programs related to the diplomatic solution, including negotiations between the United States and Iran, causing an agreement to address all international concerns related to Iran’s nuclear work.
Still have the chance to work with Iran with IAEA
The senior Western diplomat last week described this resolution as a “serious step”, but added that Western countries would “not close the door to diplomacy on this issue.” However, if Iran is unable to cooperate, there may be an extraordinary IAEA board meeting in the summer, during which another resolution will be adopted to transfer the issue to the Security Council, the diplomat said on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue with the media.
Three European countries have previously threatened to restore or Snapback, sanctions that have been canceled under the initial 2015 Iranian nuclear deal if Iran does not provide “technically reliable” answers to UN nuclear questions.
In a joint statement to the IAEA Board, three European countries said they were “disobeying efforts to work on a diplomatic solution,” but added that they were “considering a Snapback mechanism to address the threat of international peace and security from Iran’s nuclear programs.”
The power to restore these sanctions after any initial 2015 nuclear member’s complaints end in October, before losing the West to the clock before that power to put pressure on Tehran.
The resolution comes on the IAEA so -called “comprehensive report” heels, which were distributed in the Member States last weekend. In the report, the UN Nuclear Savse said Iran’s cooperation with the agency was “less than satisfactory” when it comes to uranium feet, which the agency inspectors revealed in several parts of Iran.
One of the sites in 2018 became publicly known after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discovered it in the United Nations and called it a secret nuclear warehouse hidden in the carpet cleaning plant. Iran denied it, but in 2019 IAEA inspectors discovered the presence of uranium feet as well as in two other places.
– –Gambrell reported from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writer Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, participated in this report.
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