Grossi and Mohammad Eslami in Tehran (AFP)
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After the visit of the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency to Iran a few days ago, and his confirmation that he had returned with a semi-understanding between the two parties, Western diplomats in the Board of Governors of the International Agency for Arabic / Al-Hadath made it clear today, Tuesday, that Western countries should slow down by presenting a draft resolution condemning Iran aimed at giving it an opportunity to cooperate with Iran. agency and clarify outstanding issues about its secret locations.
One of the diplomats described the Western countries’ delay in putting forward this draft resolution as “the calm before the storm.”
He also added that the meeting of the Board of Governors next June will reassess cooperation between Tehran and the agency, on the basis of which it will take the appropriate steps.
No new decision
All the statements came after diplomatic sources reported on Monday evening that the IAEA Board of Governors, which began its meetings in Vienna yesterday, will not issue a new resolution on Iran this week, despite the escalation over its nuclear program, due to the “concrete understandings” that Grossi reached at the end of last week in Tehran.
Two days before the quarterly meeting of the 35-nation board of governors, Grossi and Tehran announced that they had agreed to make progress on various issues, including the agency’s long-stalled investigation into uranium particles found at three undisclosed sites in Iran.
Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency
He also made it clear in a press conference on Saturday that the two parties agreed to re-install all surveillance cameras, which were placed at the nuclear sites under the agreement concluded in 2015 with the major powers, but were removed last year with the collapse of the agreement after the United States withdrew from it in 2018.
Grossi backed off
However, he later admitted that those concessions that Iran had shown willingness to provide to the agency depended to a large extent on future negotiations, retracting what he had previously said.
He also refused to answer any inquiries about the subject or about the commitments that the Iranian side could make.
While the United States gave no indication of how far it would go to push Iran into compliance, at this week’s Board of Governors meeting, it said only that it was in talks with European allies and the agency about the “most effective means” to get Tehran to live up to its commitments.
It is noteworthy that Grossi’s visit to Tehran, on Saturday, came after a report not prepared for publication by the IAEA revealed that particles of uranium enriched to 83.7%, or slightly less than 90% needed to produce an atomic bomb, were found in the Fordow plant, which is located underground at a distance from Iran. 100 km south of the capital.
