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 International 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 International Atomic Energy Agency to be able to fulfill its technical duties, without interfering in politics, without succumbing to the completely deviant tricks of the Western countries.” , to guarantee the objectivity and impartiality of its supervision. We consider this as a necessary guarantee for constructive cooperation between the Agency and Iran, which we always support to strengthen.”

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

Grossi’s recent statements 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 points out, “the West is trying to avoid responsibility for gross violations of UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and the current deadlock in the JCPOA to limit Iran’s nuclear program.”

Zakharova added: “The international community has a clear understanding that it was the Western countries that caused disruptions in the re-conclusion of the JCPOA agreement, 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 countermeasures, 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 development of peaceful nuclear energy. This non-restriction is conditional on all nuclear activities in the country being under the control 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 President of the United States at the time, withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018, claiming that it was incomplete. In exchange for the lifting of international sanctions in this agreement, Iran limited its nuclear activities. By adopting the “maximum pressure campaign” policy while restoring previous sanctions against Iran, the Trump administration continued to impose sanctions against Iran until its last days in the White House.

After a year and a half of enduring the American sanctions and the failure of European countries 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 voluntary commitments In the nuclear agreement, he takes a distance. However, Iran has stated that it is ready to finalize a “good” agreement to lift all sanctions if the members of the agreement show mutual adherence to the commitments of political submission and good faith to revive it.

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

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

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