UN nuclear watchdog talks with Tehran on improving participation with the company have paused since the president’s and unusual minister’s deaths, according to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi, who spoke to Reuters on Wednesday.
” They are in a mourning period which I need to respect”, International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) chief Grossi said in Helsinki, where he spoke at a nuclear conference.
However, he said,” We will be engaging once this is over,” describing it as a “temporary interruption that I hope will be over in a matter of days.”
Due to the plane crash last weekend that claimed the lives of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Grossi claimed that the IAEA planned to hold technical discussions with Iran but that they had not yet taken position.
Iran’s IAEA faces a number of challenges, including Tehran’s recent ban on many of its most knowledgeable uranium-enriched experts from its evaluation team and Iran’s ongoing failure to explain uranium traces discovered at undeclared sites despite a year-long IAEA investigation.
While Iran’s uranium-enriched program continues to advance, the IAEA has been trying to expand its control of its nuclear actions. Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60 % beauty, close to the 90 % of weaponry- level, which no other country has done without developing nuclear weapons.
Tehran says its aims are completely calm.
According to Grossi, Iran officially has 140 pounds of uranium that is up to 60 % enriched. According to an IAEA concept, that is potentially much, if enriched further, for three atomic bombs. The IAEA’s next quarterly review in February said Iran had 121.5 pounds, sufficiently for two explosives.
According to Grossi, Iran also produces about nine kilograms of uranium enriched to up to 60 % each month. Additionally, it is enriching to low levels, where it has enough materials for potential new weapons.
Grossi reiterated his desire to see tangible benefits from enhanced cooperation from Iran soon, but said a more extensive agreement would need” a little more day.”
For then, his team had not made progress on the major problems, he said.
Grossi referred to the uranium traces at unidentified places as “high day there is some material release and, if not quality, some explanation of what is this.”
” And I would say, confidence in many parts of the world ( in Iran on the nuclear issue ) is growing thinner.
