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Monday, 22 February 2021_Iran’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna has dismissed speculations that Tehran suspended the implementation of a new law that tasks the administration to accelerate the development of Iran’s nuclear program, following a visit by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to Tehran.
“The full implementation of the legislation passed by the esteemed Majlis (parliament) is a serious concern of the establishment and no one has the right to neglect it,” Kazem Gharibabadi tweeted on Monday morning.
The remarks came amid mounting concerns inside the country caused by a joint statement issued by Grossi and Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), which said Iran will continue to “implement fully and without limitation its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA as before.”
Gharibabadi said the implementation of the law – the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions – will not be postponed, and no permission to carry out inspections beyond the Safeguards Agreement will be granted to the IAEA.
Iranian lawmakers passed the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions in early December as a remedial measure against the United States’ illegal sanctions which were imposed after the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, officially called the JCPOA, in May 2018.
According to the law, the Iranian administration is required to stop allowing IAEA inspections beyond the Safeguards Agreement, including the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol, if the other parties to the JCPOA failed to deliver on their commitments before a two-month deadline.
The joint statement by Salehi and Grossi said Iran will stop the implementation of the voluntary measures as envisaged in the Iran nuclear agreement, as of February 23.
Gharibabadi also said Iran will keep the IAEA’s monitoring information for three months without giving the IAEA access to them.
“During this period, the Agency will have no access to the data and the information remains exclusively with Iran,” he explained, emphasizing that the information will be given to the IAEA if the sanctions are lifted within three months.
“Otherwise, [the data] will be deleted forever,” the Iranian ambassador added.
Following Grossi’s trip, who departed Tehran on Sunday evening, Zarif took to Twitter to once again urge the US as the “offending side” to take immediate corrective measures, including a return to its JCPOA commitments and lifting of sanctions.
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