Differences still remain in the sanctions lifting negotiations with Iran – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, quoted by Sputnik News Agency, John Kirby, the Strategic Communications Coordinator of the US National Security Council, participated in a press conference today and announced: Washington is as close as it wants to finalizing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran. is not.
The strategic communications coordinator of the US National Security Council said: We are not as close to finalizing the agreement (regarding the lifting of anti-Iranian sanctions) as we would like and expect. There are still gaps and differences; But the negotiations are still ongoing.
In this regard, he claimed: The American government wants to ensure that if no agreement is reached, it will have other options to prevent Iran’s nuclear weapons!
The quarterly meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will be held in Vienna next week. Yesterday, “Lawrence Norman”, the reporter of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, published a message on Twitter and said that a resolution against Iran is not going to be issued in next week’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the Atomic Energy Agency.
Meanwhile, Rafael Grossi, the Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday, Wednesday, in a report received by Reuters, claimed that Iran’s enriched uranium reserves are 19 times higher than the permissible limit (set in the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA) has gone beyond. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is up to 60%, close to weapons grade, much higher than the amount that is sufficient for an atomic bomb. Iran’s uranium enriched up to 60% in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is estimated to have increased by 12.5 kg and reached 55.6 kg since the last quarterly report of the agency published on May 30 of this year!
In this connection, Behrooz Kamalvandi said about the recent report of the Director General of the Agency today: The content of the recent quarterly report of the Director General of the Agency is a repetition of previous baseless cases with political purposes and has nothing new except playing with phrases for specific purposes. Obviously, like the previous reports of our country’s ambassador and permanent representative, in next week’s meeting of the Board of Governors, Iran will present legal and reasoned answers to the Director General’s recent report. Meanwhile, Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has been the most transparent so far.