Nuclear: Iran says that he is ready to cooperate with the AIAA in “a new form”

The head of the Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, said this Saturday, July 12 that cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) was going to take “a new form”, less than three weeks after Israeli and American attacks in Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel said he launched this attack to prevent his enemy from acquiring the atomic bomb. Tehran has always refuted to have such ambitions.

“Our cooperation with the agency was not interrupted, but it will take a new form,” said Abbas Araghchi before foreign diplomats in Tehran, without specifying the contours.

Iran, which is partly responsible for the IEA of Israeli and American strikes in June against its nuclear facilities, officially suspended any cooperation with the UN Nuclear Gendarme, after a vote in Parliament a few days before.

“Confidence for diplomacy”

Iran “remains willing to establish confidence by diplomacy, but, before that, our counterparts must convince us that they want diplomacy and not (which the latter) serves to hide other objectives,” he added.

The United States described Iran’s decision to suspend its cooperation with the AIEA in early July at the beginning of July.

After the beginning of the war between Israel and Iran, the negotiations between Tehran and Washington began since April to supervise the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions against Iran.

This Saturday, Iran said he was going to study details for a possible resumption of these negotiations.

At the end of June, Emmanuel Macron had indicated that “the worst scenario” would be a “outside the Non -Proliferation Treaty of Iran.” By signing this treaty in 1970, and not denouncing it from the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Tehran has committed not to acquire nuclear weapons.

Until the Israeli attack of June 13, the OIEA controlled the respect of these commitments. Its general manager, Rafael Grossi, had visited the site of Fordo, hit by the United States army.

According to the OIEA, Iran is the only country not endowed with nuclear weapons to enrich uranium at a high level (60%), far beyond the limit of 3.67% established by the international agreement concluded in 2015 with the main powers, from which the United States was withdrew in 2018, during the first mandate of Donald Trump. To make a pump, the enrichment must be pushed up to 90%.