Iran’s top security body approves cooperation agreement with IAEA
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) announced on Sunday that arrangements included in a new agreement signed between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been approved by the Nuclear Committee of the council, IRNA news agency reported.
The agreement, signed by Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, earlier this week, contains arrangements to resume cooperation between Tehran and the IAEA, following a suspension triggered by the 12-day war in June.
“The text of these arrangements was reviewed by the Nuclear Committee of the Supreme National Security Council, and what has been signed is essentially the same as what was approved by that committee,” the statement read.
The statement also provided a brief explanation on how Iran and the IAEA should cooperate on the three nuclear sites of Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow that were struck by the US and the Zionist forces.
“After the necessary security and safety conditions are established, Iran will submit its report to the IAEA only after obtaining the opinion of the SNSC,” the source said, adding that “the practical methods for Iran-IAEA cooperation on the report submitted to the agency should be agreed upon by the two sides, and that any action must be approved by the SNSC.”
Iran’s top security body emphasized that the implementation of the new arrangements agreed by Tehran and the IAEA would be stopped “if any hostile action was taken against Iran and its nuclear sites, including the restoration of UN sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.”
This follows last month’s move by Britain, France, and Germany to reinstate sanctions by activating the “snapback mechanism.”
