IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told Spain that Iran’s nuclear program is “moving forward” and the International Atomic Energy Agency has very limited visibility on what is happening. Country newspaper in an interview published on Friday.
In June, Iran began compulsorily removing all of the agency’s surveillance equipment set up under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Grossi said at the time that it could be a “fatal blow” to the prospect of reviving the deal after the United States withdrew in 2018.
“The bottom line is that for about five weeks I have very limited visibility, with a nuclear program that is progressing and so, if there is an agreement, it will be very difficult for me to recreate this puzzle. entire period of blindness,” he told Country,
Grossi said in June that there was only a three to four week window for the IAEA to restore at least some surveillance before it lost its ability to piece together Iran’s most important nuclear activities.
Since then-US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the deal and reimposed sanctions against Tehran in 2018, Iran has violated several of the agreement’s limits on its nuclear activities.
It is enriching uranium to near weapons-grade.
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Western powers have warned that it is capable of moving rapidly towards building an atomic bomb. Iran refuses to want.
“It is not impossible (to recreate the puzzle), but it will require a very complex task and probably some specific compromises,” Grossi, who visited Madrid, said in his interview. Country,
Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 deal have been stalled since March.
Grossi said he was worried and worried about these weeks with no visibility.
“The agency needed to rebuild a database, without which any agreement would hinge on a very delicate basis, because if we don’t know what is, how can we determine how much content to export, how many Have to leave the centrifuge unused?” They said.
asked about Reuters report good That Iran is further increasing its uranium enrichment with the use of advanced machines at its underground Fordo plant, Grossi said “technological progress of the Iranian program is stagnant”.