IAEA Reconfirms Iran’s Compliance with JCPOA
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano confirmed once again that the Islamic Republic of Iran is honoring all it nuclear-related commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
“As I have reported to the Board of Governors, the nuclear-related commitments undertaken by Iran under the JCPOA are being implemented,” Amano said in a statement shortly after US President Donald Trump refused to certify the deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“The IAEA’s verification and monitoring activities address all the nuclear-related elements under the JCPOA. They are undertaken in an impartial and objective manner and in accordance with the modalities defined by the JCPOA and standard safeguards practice,” it added, according to the official website of the IAEA.
“Iran is now provisionally implementing the Additional Protocol to its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA, a powerful verification tool which gives our inspectors broader access to information and locations in Iran. So far, the IAEA has had access to all locations it needed to visit.”
“At present, Iran is subject to the world’s most robust nuclear verification regime,” Amano stressed in the statement.
Speaking from the White House on Friday, Trump said he will choose not to certify that Tehran is complying with the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).
He said that the new policy is aimed at preventing what he claimed Iran’s effort to obtain a nuclear weapon.
In response, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Friday blasted the anti-Iran comments made by the US president, reiterating that the Iranian nation will not surrender to such “false statements and hate speech”.
