On the 3rd of July, Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, instructs the nation to cease collaborating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following the bombing of three pivotal Iranian nuclear locations by the United States as warfare escalated in the air between Israel and Iran.
It was stated by the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic that the ensuing discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency are set to be ‘intricate’ and ‘technical’. The announcement came ahead of an initial visit from the nuclear authority since the moment Tehran discontinued the connection with the group during the prior month.
The conjunction between these two entities experienced a downturn after a period of twelve days involving aerial attacks launched by Israel and the United States in the month of June. During this time, substantial Iranian nuclear plants were subject to bombing.
It was on June 12 that the IAEA panel declared Iran to have violated the rules regarding non-proliferation – a mere day before Israel launched airstrikes over Iran, leading to the outbreak of conflict. The IAEA, however, did not make any immediate comments about the upcoming visit by their Deputy Head.
There was no planned inspection of Iran’s nuclear plants included in the visit. Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has suggested that there may be a possibility for a meeting with the Foreign Minister, Abbas Aragchi, although it is a bit too early to forecast the results of these intricate, technical discussions.
Baghaei, critical of the IAEA’s behaviour during the war with Israel in the month of June, commented on their strategy. He pointed out that a country’s peaceful infrastructures under 24-hour surveillance. Yet when the structures became targets, the agency failed to respond rationally or even condemn the situation in the way it was expected to.
Foreign Minister Aragchi, however, had previously elucidated that collaboration with the agency would necessitate the prior sanction of Iran’s principal security entity, the Supreme National Security Council. The understanding of how they cooperate would need to alter.
The inauguration of this decision could reduce the capacity of inspectors to monitor the activities of Tehran’s nuclear program, which was previously understood to be enriching uranium to very nearly the potency levels used in weaponry.
President Pezeshkian ordered Iran to suspend its cooperation with the IAEA again on July 3, once US airstrikes damaged three principal Iranian nuclear locations amidst Israeli air assaults on Iran. This war led to approximately 1,100 lives lost, including a considerable number of military leaders.
In counteraction, Iran launched strikes against Israel resulting in the death of 28 people. Iran has periodically bounded IAEA inspections in previous times as a tactic in their negotiations with Western countries.
The resumption of dialogues between Tehran and Washington to discuss the terms of an agreement over the nuclear program is yet unclear. Both US intelligence agencies and the IAEA had last discerned in 2003 that Iran had an efficient nuclear weaponry program.
However, Tehran has been found to be enriching uranium up to 60%, which is only one technical step away from the 90% levels used in weaponry. This poses an immediate challenge to international security and may sway the negotiation atmosphere between Iran and the West.
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