Aug. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, indicated this Tuesday at a press conference that Iran’s nuclear program “is advancing very, very quickly” in the context of growing tensions and the lack of progress in the negotiation to recover the 2015 nuclear agreement.
“It is not impossible to approve the Iranian nuclear plan, but approving it requires very complete and essential work,” Grossi said, adding that Iran has already reported the installation of new advanced centrifuges, so the IAEA is ready for the tasks of inspection, according to the IRNA news agency.
These comments by Grossi come after the Government of Iran announced on Tuesday the injection of gas in hundreds of advanced centrifuges in response to the new package of sanctions announced by the United States and has criticized Washington’s “irrational measures”.
“Iran has responded to the action of the United States by injecting gas into hundreds of advanced centrifuges,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian, who has charged against the “madness of ineffective sanctions” by the United States since the withdrawal. Washington’s unilateral agreement in 2018.
In this regard, he recalled that the High Representative of the European Union for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, recognized last week that the US campaign of “maximum pressure” has “failed”, after revealing in an article in the ‘Financial Times’ a new proposal to try to unblock the talks process.
On the other hand, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kanani, has criticized the US sanctions and has stated that “the White House’s addiction to sanctions and their instrumental use is a sign of the US hegemonic system, since the change of administrations does not imply any change in their positions”.
The sanctions were announced just a few hours after Kanani himself said that Tehran was open to restarting contacts for the reactivation of the nuclear agreement and defended that it is the “logical and rational path” to achieve a “sustainable” pact.
Hours earlier, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohamad Eslami, had assured that Tehran has the technical capabilities to build an atomic bomb, although they have reiterated that it is not among their plans to carry out the project. .
Iran announced the withdrawal of its commitments on several of the points of the 2015 nuclear agreement after the United States left the pact unilaterally in 2018, although the Iranian authorities have defended that these steps can be reversed if the United States withdraws the sanctions. and return to the deal.
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