Islamic Republic’s Response to IAEA Report on Karaj Complex
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna called the International Atomic Energy Agency report “inaccurate.” Rafael Grossi in his recent report had referred to the advanced centrifuge components production complex in Karaj.
Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative in Vienna, described the IAEA Director General’s recent report regarding inspectors’ inability to access surveillance cameras at the TESA Karaj complex as “inaccurate” and referred to it as an issue “beyond the agreements reached” between Iran and the Agency.
Gharibabadi’s reference was to Rafael Grossi’s recent visit to Tehran. Grossi, the IAEA Director General, traveled to Tehran regarding the Agency’s inspectors’ monitoring and reached an agreement with Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Now the Agency in its recent report states that the Islamic Republic “is not fully implementing this agreement.”
The German news agency reported from Vienna on the IAEA spokesperson’s statements regarding the level of Iran’s cooperation with the Agency.
On Sunday evening, September 26 (Mehr 4), Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, released a new report on the Agency’s inspectors’ monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities.
The Agency’s spokesperson, following the release of Grossi’s report, said that the Islamic Republic “has prevented the Agency’s inspectors from monitoring a complex where components needed for advanced centrifuges are produced.”
The IAEA spokesperson’s reference was to the TESA Karaj complex. The restrictions imposed on the Agency’s inspectors have been stated as contrary to the agreement from June 12 between Grossi and the head of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization.
Based on the aforementioned agreement, the Islamic Republic had agreed to allow the Agency to exchange memory cards from surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has claimed that the Agency’s cameras at the Karaj workshop were damaged during a “terrorist attack.”
Gharibabadi, through several Twitter posts, claimed that the Islamic Republic’s decisions regarding the Agency’s monitoring equipment stemmed from “political and not legal considerations” and therefore the Agency cannot claim to have “a right” to monitor the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, by employing advanced generations of centrifuges, has successfully increased uranium enrichment to over 60 percent.
The Agency’s report states that uranium enrichment at such a level would enable Iran to reach the materials necessary to produce a nuclear bomb very quickly. To build a nuclear bomb, uranium must be enriched to approximately 90 percent.
The German news agency, while reporting this news, reported “severe concern” from the Agency and the international community about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.
Source: DW
