May 31. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed this Wednesday that Tehran has justified the presence of uranium particles enriched to levels just below those necessary to manufacture a nuclear weapon and has indicated that it has increased its collaboration with the nuclear agency. from the ONU.
“Iran has provided a possible explanation for the presence of enriched uranium particles. Iran has allowed the agency to install some additional surveillance cameras,” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said, adding that there is “some progress,” according to has picked up the news agency Bloomberg.
The latest IAEA report on the implementation of the nuclear deal revealed that Iran enriched uranium to 83.7 percent at the Fordo fuel plant in January, well above the agreed 60 percent rate.
Grossi’s words appear in one of the two reports on the presence of these particles. Tehran would have, according to the text seen by the aforementioned agency, reinstated new surveillance equipment and intensified its cooperation with IAEA inspectors.
Sources cited by the Iranian news agency Tasnim highlighted the day before that Tehran resolved the “dispute” over one of the three facilities over which the IAEA had expressed suspicions in relation to the presence of undeclared nuclear material, specifically in the case of Marivan.
Likewise, they also stressed that the doubts related to the detection of uranium particles enriched above 80 percent at the Fordo plant were resolved as a result of the technical explanations provided by Tehran.
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behruz Kamalvandi, previously indicated that the existence of these particles is common during the uranium enrichment process. “It is the final product that matters and Iran has never embarked on enrichment to a level greater than 60 percent,” he went on to say.
The talks for the restoration of the agreement, seriously damaged by the decision of the United States to withdraw from it unilaterally in 2018 denouncing alleged breaches by Tehran, have been stalled for months, while the IAEA has confirmed progress in the program by the Iranian authorities.
