Iran moves to suspend cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

Iran’s Guardian Council has ratified a parliament-approved authorities to suspend Tehran’s practice with the United Nations atomic watchdog, the IAEA, aft the war with Israel and the United States.

Iranian quality outlets reported connected Thursday that the appointed council, which has veto powerfulness implicit bills approved by lawmakers, recovered the parliament’s measurement to “not to beryllium successful contradiction to the Islamic principles and the Constitution”.

Guardian Council spokesperson Hadi Tahan Nazif told the authoritative authorities quality agency, IRNA, that the authorities is present required to suspend practice with the IAEA for the “full respect for the nationalist sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

Nazif added that the determination was prompted by the “attacks … by the Zionist authorities and the United States against peaceful atomic facilities”.

The measure volition beryllium submitted to President Masoud Pezeshkian for last support and would let Iran “to payment from each the entitlements specified nether … the Non-Proliferation Treaty, particularly with respect to uranium enrichment”, Nazif said.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf suggested that the authorities is present binding aft the Guardian Council’s approval.

“Continued practice with the agency, which plays a relation arsenic a protector of anti-human interests and an cause of the illegitimate Zionist authorities done the pretext of warfare and aggression, is not imaginable until the information of our atomic facilities is ensured,” Ghalibaf said successful a societal media post.

However, the IAEA said connected Thursday that it had not received an authoritative connection from Iran regarding the suspension.

Iranian officials person been decrying the IAEA’s nonaccomplishment to condemn Israeli attacks connected the country’s atomic facilities.

Before the warfare started, Tehran claimed to person obtained Israeli documents that amusement that the IAEA was passing disconnected accusation to Israel astir Iran’s atomic programme – allegations that were denied by the agency.

Israel is wide believed to person its ain atomic arsenal, but its atomic programme has not been monitored by the UN watchdog.

For years, Iranian atomic sites person been nether strict IAEA inspection, including by changeless video feed. But it appears that Iran moved its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium from the facilities earlier they were bombed by Israel and the US during the caller war, putting them retired of the presumption of UN observers for the archetypal time.

US and Israeli officials have argued that the subject strikes person acceptable backmost Iran’s atomic programme for years. But suspending practice with the IAEA could escalate the programme, though Tehran insists that it is not seeking a atomic weapon.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied connected Thursday that Tehran was considering returning to atomic negotiations with the US aft 5 rounds of indirect meetings earlier Israel attacked.

“Some speculations astir the resumption of negotiations should not beryllium taken seriously,” Araghchi said connected authorities television.

“I would similar to authorities intelligibly that nary agreement, statement oregon speech has been made to commencement caller negotiations. No program has been acceptable yet to commencement negotiations,” helium added.

The apical diplomat said the damages from Israeli and US attacks to its atomic sites “were not little” and that authorities were inactive figuring retired what their caller atomic programme would look like, which would pass Tehran’s aboriginal diplomatic stance.

Araghchi besides deed retired astatine IAEA main Rafael Grossi, saying that his refusal to denounce the attacks connected Iran’s atomic facilities proves his “biased stance”.

Moscow, Tehran’s ally, voiced interest connected Thursday implicit the imaginable of Iran suspending practice with the UN agency.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was “interested successful Iran’s practice with the IAEA continuing”.

“We are funny successful everyone respecting the ultimate leader of Iran, who has repeatedly stated that Iran does not and volition not person plans to make atomic weapons,”  Lavrov said.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul besides told journalists that Berlin “urges the Iranian authorities not to spell down this path” and cease practice with the board.

On June 13, Israel launched a astonishment bombing run against Iran, striking residential buildings and atomic sites and subject facilities, sidesplitting apical commanders and scientists arsenic good arsenic hundreds of civilians.

Iran responded with barrages of missiles that near wide demolition successful Israel and killed astatine slightest 29 people.

On Sunday, the US joined Israel and launched unprecedented strikes connected Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites.

Following Iran’s retaliatory onslaught connected a US subject basal successful Qatar, a ceasefire was reached betwixt the countries.

Both Israel and Iran declared triumph after the war.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies