Iran will never allow US to exploit IAEA to kill nuclear deal: FM Zarif

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Publish Date: 10:27 - 17 June 2020
Tehran, 17 June_Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran will never allow the United States to use the UN nuclear agency as an instrument to kill a landmark 2015 nuclear deal signed between Tehran and major world powers.

Iran will never allow US to exploit IAEA to kill nuclear deal: FM ZarifAddressing a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, Zarif said withdrawing from international treaties and organizations has become the new normal for the administration of US President Donald Trump.

“We will not allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to become a tool in the hands of the Trump administration to destroy the JCPOA,” said the top Iranian diplomat, using an acronym for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear deal is officially called.

As verified by the IAEA’s reports, the Islamic Republic has always cooperated with the agency in a transparent way and lived up to all of its commitments, he added.

Zarif said “we will never allow Iran to become the topic of investigations, which are based on espionage claims.”

“It will be very deplorable if the United Nations secretariat and the agency's secretariat moves in the path of the JCPOA’s destruction,” he added.

In his introductory statement to the Board of Governors of the IAEA on Monday, the agency’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi claimed that “for over four months, Iran has denied us access to two locations” that the IAEA had asked for access to, urging Tehran to cooperate with the agency, “including by providing prompt access to the locations specified by us.”

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