Russia: Grossi should have a neutral approach regarding Iran

According to RCO News Agency, “Maria Zakharova”, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Wednesday evening: Russia expects the Iernational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to adopt an impartial approach to monitor the facilities of Iran’s nuclear program.

According to the report of the Russian News agency “Tass”, the spokesperson of the Russian diplomatic service stated in his press conference: “We expect the Iernational Atomic Energy Agency to be able to fulfill its technical duties, without ierfering in politics, without succumbing to the completely devia tricks of the Western couries.” , to guaraee the objectivity and impartiality of its supervision. We consider this as a necessary guaraee for constructive cooperation between the Agency and Iran, which we always support to strengthen.”

Zakharova coinued to react to Grossi’s alleged statemes about Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons and said: “Such political and unilateral statemes that are made in the hope of iroducing the agency as an accomplice and sometimes even the initiator of political attacks on Tehran, always “It pursues one goal, and that is to iroduce Iran’s nuclear program as the main threat in West Asia that can be fought by any means.”

Grossi’s rece statemes are while he had previously admitted that nuclear weapons have no place in Iran’s macro-politics.

At the same time, as the spokesperson of the Russian diplomatic service pois out, “the West is trying to avoid responsibility for gross violations of UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and the curre deadlock in the JCPOA to limit Iran’s nuclear program.”

Zakharova added: “The iernational community has a clear understanding that it was the Western couries that caused disruptions in the re-conclusion of the JCPOA agreeme, while Tehran has repeatedly declared its readiness to return to the JCPOA parameters, but Iran has not set its conditions for returning to the JCPOA. Washington, Brussels and London have announced couermeasures, but the West is not ready to cooperate.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia added: “The treaty and JCPOA have not imposed any restrictions on the developme of peaceful nuclear energy. This non-restriction is conditional on all nuclear activities in the coury being under the corol of the Agency. “Iran’s nuclear program has been and remains under the strictest supervision of the IAEA.”

As Zakharova stated, the administration of Donald Trump, the Preside of the United States at the time, withdrew from the nuclear agreeme in 2018, claiming that it was incomplete. In exchange for the lifting of iernational sanctions in this agreeme, Iran limited its nuclear activities. By adopting the “maximum pressure campaign” policy while restoring previous sanctions against Iran, the Trump administration coinued to impose sanctions against Iran uil its last days in the White House.

After a year and a half of enduring the American sanctions and the failure of European couries to fulfill their obligations to reduce the impact of sanctions and normalize trade relations with Iran, Iran announced that according to its legitimate right to take compensatory measures according to Article 36 of the JCPOA, from some of its voluary commitmes In the nuclear agreeme, he takes a distance. However, Iran has stated that it is ready to finalize a “good” agreeme to lift all sanctions if the members of the agreeme show mutual adherence to the commitmes of political submission and good faith to revive it.

In March 2022, the “Joe Biden” governme started the Vienna negotiations to revive the nuclear agreeme indirectly with Iran and with the participation of the main members of this agreeme. However, these negotiations remained inconclusive despite some technical advances.

After winning the November 5 election, Trump said about Iran that he does not wa to hinder Iran’s progress, but he will preve it from becoming nuclear.

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