Dubai. June 6. INTERFAX - Tehran will not sign an agreement on restarting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program until it resolves all disputed issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), adviser to the Iranian delegation at the talks Mohammad Marandi said.
"Iran's position has not changed: it will not sign any agreement until all cases with the IAEA are resolved," Iranian media quoted Marandi as saying on Tuesday.
Earlier, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated that his agency had not received explanations from Tehran about the traces of uranium found by agency inspectors in Iran in three places that cannot be considered nuclear facilities in any way.
At the end of May, the IAEA announced in a confidential quarterly report that it had decided to stop investigating traces of uranium allegedly found at one of the three facilities - at the Marivan landfill in Abadeh district after receiving clarifications from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
In addition, during the bilateral consultations, the issue of the presence of uranium enriched to 83.7% recorded at the nuclear facility in Fordo by IAEA inspectors was removed, Iranian media reported.
According to them, Grossi said at a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna that the agency for the first time installed devices for monitoring the level of uranium enrichment at nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz.
The JCPOA was concluded in 2015 by the "six" international mediators (Great Britain, Germany, China, Russia, the United States, France) and Iran and provided for the lifting of sanctions from the latter in exchange for limiting Tehran's nuclear program. In May 2018, then US President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated unilateral anti-Iranian sanctions. In response, Tehran began to gradually reduce its obligations to limit its nuclear program under the agreement.
The current US President Joe Biden has declared his readiness to return to the nuclear deal under certain conditions.