BRUSSELS, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has indicated this Monday that it is time to wait for the report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assess whether Iran enriches uranium above 60 percent, as has appeared in media.
At a press conference after the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, the head of diplomacy has measured his words about this supposed event in Iran, assuring that he will not “pronounce” on the subject until he has the IAEA report scheduled for the next few days.
“These are reports whose provenance and reliability I do not know. Enriching uranium is more difficult than it seems,” he said asking for caution, after the Bloomberg agency published on Sunday that international inspectors would have detected amounts of uranium enriched to levels of 84 percent, on the cutting edge of what is necessary to make a working nuclear weapon.
In this sense, the former Spanish minister has defended the work and technical capacity of the nuclear organization. “It is the agency that has to tell me what is happening,” he insisted when asked by journalists after Tehran denied that they are enriching uranium above 60 percent, insisting that the information seeks to “distort reality.” .
SANCTIONS AND NUCLEAR AGREEMENT
In any case, regarding the drift in relations with Iran due to its military support for Russia and the continued internal repression, which has triggered five consecutive rounds of EU sanctions, Borrell has argued that the restrictions are “necessary and inevitable”.
This Monday, the EU has imposed sanctions for the fifth consecutive month against Tehran, it has done so every time it has met at the Foreign Affairs level since October, and adds almost 200 individuals and 33 entities on its ‘black list’.
All this is linked to the negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement, talks that, as the High Representative has acknowledged, are “at the point of winter lethargy” due to the continuous clashes with Iran and its military support for Russia in the war in Ukraine. .
“The negotiation process, which in essence was already at a very mature point before the summer, is now frozen. Let’s see what happens,” Borrell summarized about the diplomatic efforts led by the EU to get the United States to return to the pact and Iran undertakes to fully respect it.
