The three countries had signed, in consultation with the US, a text condemning Tehran’s lack of cooperation
The Iran will hold talks on its nuclear program on Friday with France, Germany and the United Kingdomthree countries that submitted text condemning Tehran’s lack of cooperation on the issue.
Paris, Berlin and London in consultation with Washingtonsign the text submitted during a meeting at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
The text was approved on Thursday by 19 of the 35 member countries of the IAEA’s Board of Governors, angering Iran, which announced in retaliation that it would start operating its nuclear program’s new advanced centrifuges.
Apart from this issue, Iran will hold talks with France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the regional and international situation, “including the issues of Palestine and Lebanon,” the Iranian diplomatic spokesman announced today. Esmail Bagai.
The location of Friday’s talks was not specified.
Iran is allied with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, two organizations at war with Israel, Tehran’s archenemy since 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
OR Tehran insists that its nuclear program has no military goals and is primarily aimed at producing energy. He therefore denies that he is seeking to acquire an atomic weapon, which Western countries suspect.
In 2015, Iran signed an international agreement in Vienna with France, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, Russia and the United States to control its nuclear program in exchange for the easing of international sanctions against it.
However, in 2018, the Donald Trumpthen US president, withdrew his country from the agreement – which Tehran had until then adhered to, according to the IAEA – and reimposed heavy sanctions on Iran.
In retaliation, Tehran drastically increased its stockpile of enriched uranium and raised the enrichment limit to 60%, very close to the 90% required to build an atomic weapon.
The 2015 agreement, which has become a dead letter, provided for an enrichment ceiling of 3.67%.
Iran’s new president Massoud Pezheskian, an advocate of dialogue with Western countries, has said he wants to remove “doubts and ambiguities” about Tehran’s nuclear program, which he believes showed goodwill by inviting the head of the IAEA a week ago Rafael Grossi at the Natanz and Fordo nuclear facilities.
Source :Skai
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