Grossi: There is no need to refer Iran’s nuclear case to the Security Council – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to the Mehr news agency, Raphael Grossi said in an interview with the English newspaper Financial Times: Iran should seriously improve its cooperation with the UN inspectors in order to prevent the escalation of tensions with Western countries.

He claimed: Although the agency has conducted about a dozen inspections in Iran since the war with Israel in June, it has not been given access to the country’s most important nuclear facilities, i.e. Ferdo, Natanz and Isfahan, which were previously bombed by the US.

Referring to the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency claimed: the attacks have severely damaged these facilities and the fate of 408 kg of enriched uranium close to weapons level is still unclear, and this issue has created an increasing need to resume inspections, and we should have resumed inspections sooner.

Grossi said that the organization is trying to move forward the turbulent relations with Iran with mutual understanding, but Iran still needs to fulfill its obligations.

Without condemning the US action in bombing the peaceful nuclear sites of a member country of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he claimed that the outbreak of war cannot be a reason for Tehran’s cooperation with this organization to decrease.

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that there is no need to refer Iran to the UN Security Council due to the suspension of inspections, but cooperation must be seriously improved.

“The damage is extensive, but our assessment shows that most of the uranium enriched at levels of 60 percent and below is still there,” Grossi said. These materials are still present, and although we do not determine the ultimate end for them, it is clear that the presence of enriched materials at such a high level, close to weapons level, is a source of concern.

A senior Iranian official also said in an interview with the Financial Times that there was no activity in the targeted nuclear facilities.

“Satellite images monitor these sites continuously and closely, and if there was any movement, the agency would react strongly,” he told the Financial Times.

After reaching a preliminary agreement with Grossi in September, Iran allowed IAEA experts to resume some inspections. However, the European powers responded to Iran’s goodwill by restoring the international sanctions against the Islamic Republic in the same month.

Esmail Baqaei, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, announced that the contradictory statements of IAEA officials will not help the cooperation between Iran and IAEA

Iran has announced that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it has the right to enrich uranium. Tehran has also announced that although it will not abandon uranium enrichment, it is ready to discuss possible restrictions in this field.

The agency had previously said it had observed new movements at Iran’s nuclear facilities, which it does not have access to, and needed to make sure the enriched uranium had not been moved elsewhere.