Atom official says Tehran starts measures in response to anti-Iran resolution

An official from Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that the country has started measures in response to the new resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors against the country.

News ID: 5456

Date: 23 November 2024 - 08:26

TABNAK, Nov, 23 : Kamalvandi who is Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), referred to the IAEA Director General's recent visit to Iran's nuclear sites, said: "Mr. Grossi saw the enrichment chains and thousands of installed centrifuges. We announced that these are ready to be operated, whereas we are also ready to cooperate with the IAEA."

He also referred to Grossi’s proposal during his visit to Iran that asked the country to temporarily do not increase its 60 percent stockpile, saying that,

Iran had accepted the proposal with certain conditions, including no new resolution to be approved against Iran.

"We had announced that we will react immediately,” he said referring to the new IAEA new resolution against Iran.

“We informed the IAEA officials before they left the secretariat and we sent them a Design Information Questionnaire (DIQ) on Friday,” he said.

In response to the "unjustifiable" resolution passed by the IAEA Board of Governors against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program under the influence of the European trio (E3) and the United States, Iran immediately put into operation a “substantial number of advanced centrifuges of various models”.

The decision was made following a joint statement by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has consistently emphasized, at all levels, that taking confrontational measures and any misuse of the IAEA Board of Governors to pursue political and illegitimate objectives would elicit a reciprocal response,” part of the statement said.

It added, “Iran reaffirms that its technical and safeguards-related cooperation with the IAEA will continue as before, strictly in accordance with the Safeguards Agreement.”

In the final hours of the IAEA Board of Governors meeting on 21 Nov 2024, a non-consensus resolution regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear program was adopted under the pressure and insistence of three European countries & the U.S, despite lacking the support of approximately half of the Member States.

The principled policy of the I.R. of Iran has consistently been to engage constructively with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) within the framework of rights and obligations enshrined in the Treaty on the NPT and the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.