Iran Complying with Joint Plan of Action, IAEA Acknowledges


Iran Complying with Joint Plan of Action, IAEA Acknowledges

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed in its most recent report on Iran that the country has remained committed to an interim nuclear deal it had signed with six major world powers back in November 2013.

A Friday monthly update published by the UN nuclear agency made it clear that Iran has not made "any further advances" to its activities at the enrichment facilities and at the Arak heavy water reactor, which is still unfinished.

The report also confirmed that Iran was not enriching uranium above 5 percent fissile purity.

The UN nuclear agency added that Iran on November 25 "temporarily stopped the operations for conversion and fuel manufacturing" at a facility that the agency checked later from December 14-16.

The entire previous reports by the IAEA have confirmed Iran’s commitment to the Geneva nuclear deal.

Iran and the G5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) in November last year signed an interim deal, known as the Geneva Agreement, on Tehran’s nuclear case.

Based on the interim deal (the Joint Plan of Action), the world powers agreed to suspend some non-essential sanctions and to impose no new nuclear-related bans in return for Tehran's decision to suspend its 20% enrichment for a period of six months.

The two sides wrapped up a week of intensive nuclear talks in Vienna on November 24 without reaching a long-awaited deal they were supposed to hammer out by the self-imposed November 24 deadline.

Negotiations between Iran and the sextet aim to hammer out a final agreement to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.

 Negotiators from Iran and the sextet concluded a round of deputy-level talks on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program in Switzerland’s Geneva on Wednesday.

The Swiss city will reportedly once again host the next round of talks before January 20, 2015.

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