TEHRAN — Iran on Wednesday said it has sent
documents on its undeclared nuclear facilities to the UN atomic watchdog,
bringing it a step closer to reviving its 2015 nuclear accord.
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Iran has restricted some inspections by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had previously called on
Tehran to resolve questions surrounding the previous presence of nuclear
material at undeclared sites.
“We provided on March 20 the documents that we had
to send to the IAEA,” said Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran.
He added in a news conference that “most likely, the
agency’s representatives will come to Iran to review the responses and then
prepare their final report”.
An agreement that was reached between Iran and the
IAEA in March “seeks to resolve the issues regarding four sites”, Eslami said.
“The ambiguity over one of the locations has been
resolved so far, and we are hopeful that (outstanding issues concerning) the
other three sites will be closed” by June 21, he added.
On March 5, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi visited Iran
and said the agency and Tehran had agreed on an approach for resolving issues
crucial to reviving the country’s nuclear accord with world powers.
Eslami’s remarks
come as talks in Vienna to restore the 2015 deal, known formally as the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been on pause for nearly a month.
The deal gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for
curbs on its nuclear program to guarantee that Tehran could not develop a
nuclear weapon — something it has always denied wanting to do.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord in
2018 and re-imposed biting economic sanctions, prompting Iran to begin rolling
back on its own commitments the following year.
The negotiations that started about a year ago
involve Iran as well as France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China directly,
and the US indirectly.
But talks were
halted on March 11 after Russia demanded guarantees that Western sanctions
imposed following its invasion of Ukraine would not damage its trade with Iran.
Days later, Moscow said it had received the
necessary guarantees, but the impasse has continued as Tehran and Washington
have traded accusations over the causes of the delay.
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