European Troika statement about Iran’s nuclear program

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, three European countries reacted in a joint statement to the recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency about the increase in the production of enriched uranium by 60%.

The spokesmen of the Foreign Ministry of France, Germany and England have condemned what they called “a 60% increase in the rate of uranium production at the Natanz and Ferdo sites”.

The International Atomic Energy Agency claimed in a new report on Tuesday that Iran abandoned the policy of reducing its uranium production rate by 60% and increased its production of high-enriched uranium. .

The three European countries have claimed in their joint statement today: “These findings indicate a backward step by Iran and will cause Iran to increase its monthly uranium production rate to 60%.” Increase three times.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency claimed in its report on Tuesday that Iran’s 60% uranium production rate had reached 3 kg per month at the time of Iran’s reduction.

The UN nuclear watchdog further claimed that since the end of November 2023, Iran has increased the production of uranium with 60% enrichment in Natanz and Ferdo sites to about 9 kg per month. Is.

The International Atomic Energy Agency claimed in a confidential report addressed to the members of this international organization on September 13 of this year that the Islamic Republic of Iran has slowed down the enrichment of uranium with a purity level of 60%.

The three European countries have noted in their statement: “We condemn this action, which causes the continuous strengthening of Iran’s nuclear program. The production of high-enriched uranium has no credible civilian justification, and the reported production levels at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant and the [Natanz] Experimental Fuel Enrichment Plant further increase the proliferation risks.”

Western countries to In the past years, the American leadership and the Zionist regime have accused Iran of pursuing military goals in the country’s nuclear program. Iran has strongly denied these claims.

Iran emphasizes, as one of the signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the right to access technology. has a nuclear program for peaceful purposes.

Furthermore, the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency have visited Iran’s nuclear facilities many times, but they have never found evidence to show that the country has a peaceful nuclear energy program. They have not found that it deviates towards military purposes.

In addition, in 2015, Iran reached an agreement with the countries known as the 5+1 group to resolve tensions over its nuclear program. reached Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency’s acknowledgment of Iran’s adherence to all its obligations, the US government unilaterally withdrew from this agreement in May 2017. Their commitments to compensate for the effects of this withdrawal did not work. Iran fulfilled all its obligations under the JCPOA until one year after the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, but after that it reduced its obligations under the JCPOA by citing the provisions of the JCPOA.

In another part of the statement of the three European countries, it is stated: “In addition, we consider Iran’s decision to restore some of the centrifugal cascades. Iran’s delay in announcing this change in January 2023 casts serious doubt on Iran’s willingness to fully transparently cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The decision shows Iran’s lack of goodwill for de-escalation and indicates dangerous behavior in a tense regional context.” France, England and Germany have finally asked Iran to reverse these steps. and reduce tensions over its nuclear program. The European Troika have stated: “Iran must fully cooperate with the Atomic Energy Agency so that the Agency can assure the purely peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.”

International Atomic Energy Agency It has paid attention to and repeated some of the claims made by the Zionist regime about Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran has considered these claims to be fake and has rejected them.

In addition, some of the comments of “Rafael Grossi”, the Director General of the Atomic Agency, which are outside the scope of his specialized duties Many times, it has resulted in the reaction of the Iranian authorities.

For example, in an interview in September, he justified the non-return of the Joe Biden administration to the JCPOA. Rafael Grossi answered a reporter at that meeting: “Regarding the other question related to the ability to return to the JCPOA, let me say that even at the beginning of the administration in Washington in 2021, they had a longer and stronger JCPOA. They were talking.”

He went on to justify the behavior of the Biden administration and said: “Therefore, they set conditions for it right from the beginning because they knew that the agreement that was signed in 2015 After [the United States] withdrew from it in 2018 and after nearly 3 years had passed when Iran had enriched more nuclear materials at higher levels, it probably no longer had the necessary effect.”

He added: “Of course, from a political point of view, it could not be said that we are discarding the JCPOA, because that agreement was still there.” But this point of view… there was an understanding that it was necessary to implement some kind of reforms [in the agreement].” They especially support Iran’s nuclear program. The final paragraph of this statement states: “We remain committed to diplomatic solutions and once again emphasize our determination that Iran should never acquire a nuclear weapon.”

Claims European countries have been raised while negotiations to lift sanctions against Iran have been interrupted since last year. The last round of these talks was held in August of last year in Vienna.

According to experts, some factors such as pressure from the Zionist regime, differences with Congress and internal problems in the United States are the reasons for the reluctance of the Biden administration to return to JCPOA has been in the White House since taking power.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has made the verification of the lifting of sanctions, obtaining guarantees regarding the durability of the JCPOA and the removal of safeguards claims of the Atomic Agency as its main demands in the negotiations to lift the sanctions and emphasized that only returning to a bilateral agreement which, in exchange for some restrictions, will bring concrete economic benefit to the Iranian nation and accepts it.

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