Iran reducing commitments to JCPOA: AEOI chief
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said Tuesday that Iran is currently in the process of scaling back on its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal in accordance with a piece of legislation.
MEHR: The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said Tuesday that Iran is currently in the process of scaling back on its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal in accordance with a piece of legislation.
The AEOI chief Mohammad Eslami made the remarks while talking to reporters upon arrival in Shahr-e Kord in southwest Iran early on Tuesday. Eslami arrived in Shar-e Kord this morning to visit the gamma radiation system which was inaugurated in the southwestern city earlier today.
Referring to the IAEA Board of Governors’ meeting started on June 3, Eslami said the international agency gives report on Iran’s nuclear activities every three months to the Board of Governors and every six months to the United Nations Security Council.
The report focuses on Iran’s coordination or its lack of coordination with the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA), the official added.
The report includes two parts, one about the Safeguards Agreements and the other about the JCPOA, Eslami said adding that Iran has always acted within the framework of the SA with regard to the first part of the report.
Meanwhile, Iran is allowed to pursue the Strategic Action Law if the other sides, including the United States, do not remain faithful to their commitments under the JCPOA, he stressed.
To protect the security and national interests of the Islamic Republic and to fulfil its rights set in the Paragraph 26 and 36 of the JCPOA, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council issued a statement announcing that the country stopped some of its commitments under the deal from May, 2019.
It was in May 2018 that the then US president Donald Trump exited the landmark nuclear agreement and imposed as he claimed the unprecedented sanctions against Iran.
