Alwaght- Iran has protested to the UN Nuclear Agency which is under pressure from the US to inspect Iranian military sites.
A statement issued by the Iranian mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna warned of unspecified “consequences” should IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano accede to what it said was US pressure regarding Iran’s violations of nuclear deal, including its repeated ballistic missile tests. The statement came a day after US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley met IAEA Director General in the Austrian capital.
The IAEA monitors the technical aspects of the nuclear agreement, which was inked between Iran and the P5+1 countries — namely the US, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany — in July 2015 and took effect in January 2016.
The statement said the objectives and the results of Haley’s trip to Vienna “contradict” the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and Resolution 2231, which was adopted on July 20, 2015 to endorse the nuclear deal.
The Islamic Republic, it said, is fully aware of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Additional Protocol and the JCPOA, and remains committed to their terms.
However, Iran will not allow a specific country to take advantage of the rules for its own political objectives, the statement added.
Iran expects the IAEA head and its inspectors to perform their tasks regarding the JCPOA with professionalism and honesty.
Prior to her trip to Vienna, Haley claimed that the visit was a fact-finding mission and part of President US Donald Trump's review of the nuclear deal with Tehran.
Washington wants to know if the IAEA plans to inspect Iranian military sites during its verification of Tehran’s compliance with the JCPOA.
Under the deal, limits were put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the removal of all nuclear-related bans imposed on the Islamic Republic, but the JCPOA does not oblige Iran to open its military sites to inspection.
The IAEA has invariably certified Iran’s commitment to its obligations under the accord but the Trump administration, which took over in January 2017, one year after the JCPOA came into force, has taken a hostile stance toward the deal, repeatedly threatening to tear it up.
