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The transitory agreement is expected to save Tehran from censuring non-compliance through the nuclear agency, a move that may have derailed already suspended nuclear talks.
By Steven Erlanger
BRUSSELS — In a last-minute deal before Iran is likely to be censured for violating its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran’s new government agreed Sunday to allow the organization to restart tracking devices that measure the country’s nuclear progress.
The deal was noted as a minimum requirement for the resumption of talks in Vienna to verify compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which President Donald J. President Biden must sign for the deal, but the talks, which have not resumed. since June, they have been hampered by the willingness of Iran and the United States to modify it. The nuclear deal necessarily placed strict limits on Iran’s ability to enrich uranium in exchange for the lifting of punitive economic sanctions.
Trump reinstated the maximum of those sanctions and increased them; Iran responded by breaking enrichment limits and is now much closer to having enough highly enriched uranium to create a nuclear weapon, which Tehran still insists has no goal at all.
Nuclear Agency Director General Rafael M. Grrossi fasted Iran over the weekend and made at least one transitory agreement with Mohammad Eslami, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization.
In a package issued on Sunday, they agreed that IAEA inspectors can simply have surveillance equipment, including cameras, and upgrade their garage cards with new ones, but as agreed in a similar emergency agreement last February, the contents of the garage cards will be kept under seal and will only be delivered to the firm when and if Iran and the United States agree to the resumption of the 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The IAEA, which is tasked with tracking Iran’s nuclear program, has criticized Iran’s lack of cooperation with the company and its long-standing refusal to provide explanations about the presence of radioactive curtain lines at various sites or the existing location of such curtains. The company’s frustration was detailed in two confidential quarterly reports submitted to the board last week.
The agency’s board of directors met on Monday and European members, as well as the United States, had threatened to censure Iran for its non-compliance. Iran and its new intransigent government headed by President Ebrahim Raisi have threatened to abandon nuclear weapons talks in Vienna if a censorship solution is approved.
China and Russia, also signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, such as Britain, France, Germany and the United States, called for patience with the new Iranian government and opposed censorship, sparking the drama of Grossi’s latest visit, which Russia negotiated with Iran.
But as time passes and Iran gets closer to having enough for a bomb, estimated Friday at just one month through David Albright, a nuclear expert at the Institute for Science and International Security, a think-law school in Washington, the difficulty of reliving the 2015 deal is growing.
The deal was aimed at preventing Iran from having enough curtains for a bomb for at least 12 months, and critics say Iran’s growing wisdom on making and maintaining fashionable centrifuges and uranium steel, banned in the 2015 deal, cannot be unlearned. only its various advances in missile technology.
European and U. S. officials, such as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Robert Malley, the U. S. special envoy for Iran who is managing the talks, said the era of reviving the nuclear deal “is not unlimited. “And Raisi has yet to devote to a date to return to the Vienna talks. Countries in the region, in addition to Saudi Arabia and Israel, have expressed fears about the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program.
Mr. Grossi may have momentarily resolved some of the court cases in one of I’s confidential reports. AEA, in relation to the lack of access to surveillance equipment. The firm also said it had access on Sept. 4 to a broken spin meeting site for sabotage, which Iran blamed on Israel. But one of the four cameras had been destroyed, his recording. Missing device and some other broken. It’s unclear whether the recordings from the other cameras will be recoverable.
But questions in the report at the time, about radioactive lines discovered at 4 Iranian sites and summarized as “unreported nuclear and activities,” have not won a reaction from Iran in an investigation open since 2018.
“The lack of progress in clarifying the agency’s questions regarding the accuracy and completeness of Iran’s safeguards statements seriously affects the agency’s ability to provide assurances about the nonviolent nature of Iran’s nuclear program,” the report said.
On Sunday in Tehran, Grossi said: “I am pleased to say that today we were able to have a very constructive result, which has to do with the continuity of the functioning of the agency apparatus here. He said that the arrangement” is indispensable for us to provide the guarantee and mandatory data to the IAEA and the world that everything is in order.
Eslami said Grossi would soon return to Iran for additional talks, but did not say whether Iran would eventually hand over copies of the older recordings, which Tehran had threatened to destroy in the past.
“Memory cards are sealed and stored in Iran according to routine,” he said.
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