Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told reporters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday that Iran has fulfilled its obligations and presented the necessary documents to the UN nuclear body according to the roadmap signed by Iran and the UN agency in July.
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The nuclear deal clearly does not exclude the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon at such a later date.
The investigation has been essentially deadlocked for years with Tehran asserting the allegations are based on false intelligence from the U.S., Israel and other adversaries.
Both Iran and the agency were upbeat when announcing the agreement last month. But Western diplomats from IAEA member nations who are familiar with the probe are doubtful that Tehran will diverge from claiming that all its nuclear activities are and were peaceful, despite what they say is evidence to the contrary.
He underlined that Iran is not anxious about the upcoming report of the agency, but demands the IAEA to revise literature of its latest report.
Just four days after U.S.-led global powers and Iran completed their nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, reaffirmed the “Death to America” mantra that has pervaded his regime since its establishment in 1979, stating, “The entire country is under the umbrella of this great movement”.
Presently, Obama administration officials are using words like “fantasy” to describe their opponents’ former demands for a nuclear deal that fully blocks Iran’s nuclear ambitions by forcing it to abandon all nuclear enrichment and to eliminate its ballistic missile stockpiles.
U.S. lawmakers are specifically concerned that the IAEA will not get access to the controversial Parchin site, where tests of explosive devices are believed to have began in the early 2000s.
On July 14, Iran reached an agreement with the IAEA as part of the nuclear deal with the P5+1 Group (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), which requires the country to curb its nuclear program in exchange for world powers lifting the economic sanctions that have been imposed against it.
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