One of two confidential reports submitted by the agency to member states, and seen by Reuters, stated that Iran had offered not to increase its stock of… Enriched uranium To a purity of up to 60 percent, which is close to the 90 percent required to make weapons, and the necessary preparations were made for that.
Diplomats said that the offer was conditional on Western powers abandoning their efforts to issue a resolution against Iran At a meeting of the agency’s Board of Governors, which includes 35 countries, this week due to their lack of cooperation with the agency, they added that efforts are continuing despite this.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday: “Minister Abbas Araqchi informed his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot that pressure from France, Germany and Britain to submit a resolution against Tehran would complicate matters and contradict the positive atmosphere that had arisen between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
One of the two reports stated that during the visit of the Director General of the Agency Rafael Grossi To Iran last week, “The possibility of Iran not expanding its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium was discussed.”
The report added that the agency confirmed that Iran “has begun implementing preparatory measures for this.”
A senior diplomat said that the pace of enrichment to this level had slowed, which was a necessary step before stopping.
Western diplomats dismissed Iran’s initiative as a new, last-minute attempt to avoid criticism at the Board of Governors meeting, just as it did when it made a vague pledge to cooperate more closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency in March last year that was never fully fulfilled.
One Western diplomat said: “Stop Enrichment To 60 percent, great, they shouldn’t be doing that in the first place because we all know there’s no credible civilian use of 60 percent,” he said, adding, “It’s something they can easily back away from again.”
A senior diplomat said that Iran’s offer was to set the stock of uranium enriched by 60 percent at about 185 kilograms, which is the amount it had two days earlier, and this is enough in principle, if enrichment is increased to greater levels, to make four nuclear weapons, according to the International Agency’s standards. For atomic energy.
Allow inspectors
The second report said Iran had also agreed to consider allowing four more “experienced inspectors” to work in Iran after it barred most IAEA inspectors with enrichment experience last year, in what the agency described as a “very serious blow” to its ability to… Doing its job properly in Iran.
Diplomats said they could not be the same experts who were prevented from working.
Diplomats said that the draft resolution was supported by Britain And France Germany and the United States, which condemns Iran for its weak cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, will also task the agency with issuing a “comprehensive report” on Iran’s nuclear activities.
The council will no doubt approve the resolution, which was scheduled to be formally presented Tuesday evening for a vote later this week.
The last resolution against Iran was issued last June, and only one of them opposed it Russia And China.
The aim is to pressure Iran to return to the negotiating table to agree to new restrictions on its nuclear activities after the collapse of the 2015 agreement that contained wide-ranging restrictions.
This is the last quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors International Atomic Energy Agency Before US President-elect Donald Trump took office in January.
