In a statement prior to the board meeting, Amano called his December report on Iran’s activities “factual, technically sound and balanced”.
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Mr Amano hailed the “very important milestone”.
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The Obama administration and the IAEA have argued that the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the six world powers-the U.S., the U.K., Russia, China, France and Germany-allows for much greater scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear program than in the past. “We can not be complacent”.
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In July Iran and a group of six countries China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom and United States reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to resolve the nuclear issue, entrusting the IAEA with verifying and monitoring Irans commitments.
Mr Najafi said that – with the probe put to rest – Iran could meet its obligations under that agreement within “two or three weeks”.
Iranian IAEA delegate Reza Najafi trotted out Teheran’s usual denial of a nuclear weapons program, saying the Islamic republic’s nuclear activities “have always been for peaceful civilian or conventional military uses”.
Iran will now dismantle some of its nuclear centrifuges and ship out a major portion of its stockpile of enriched uranium.
“The chains of sanctions will be removed from the ankles of Iran’s economy and the path will be more open for more interaction with the world”, Rouhani said.
Rouhani, further in his address, said Iran needs to take several measures to implement the nuclear deal, noting that a way has been paved for the deal’s implementation.
U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Henry Ensher said closing the probe wouldn’t prevent the agency from following up on concerns over Iran’s past or future nuclear work.
Tuesday’s resolution was Iran’s “final step” under the “roadmap for the clarification of past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program”, Amano told journalists. The Council must not allow Iran feel that it can violate the resolutions without being punished, she stressed.
The experts’ report also noted that ballistic missile launches would still be covered by the July 20 resolution.
The move follows the release of a report earlier this month resolving all questions on Iran’s nuclear past, confirming that Iran scrapped its weaponization program in 2003, and carried out no studies even tangentially related after 2009.
The U.N. has yet to formally act on those tests, which do not violate the nuclear agreement but are banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Security Council resolution 1929, which bans ballistic missile tests, was adopted in 2010 and remains valid until the nuclear deal is implemented.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which aggressively lobbied against the deal, also condemned the vote as a “deplorable” development.
