Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on Wednesday the closure of investigations into Iran’s past nuclear activities was a political victory for the country, lifting the main obstacle to implementing Tehran’s deal with world powers.
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Only once the Vienna-based United Nations agency’s inspectors have verified that all the restrictions are in effect will global sanctions battering the Iranian economy be lifted.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report, which concluded that Iran had worked on a “range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device”, despite its denial of any work on a nuclear weapons program. The next stage is for the IAEA to certify that Iran has scaled back its nuclear plants.
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The JCPOA is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the worldwide agreement reached with Iran in July on ending the standoff over its alleged nuclear ambitions.
Tuesday’s board resolution provides for the heading under which Iran was being investigated to be closed once Iran puts in place the restrictions on its nuclear activities called for by the July deal, which Iran expects to have done by January.
In response to the report, the White House said it would not rule out additional punitive steps toward Iran that were consistent with U.S. national security.
“We are intending to complete this process within two to three weeks, so accelerate the implementation day as soon as possible”, Najafi told reporters after an exceptional IAEA board meeting at which a resolution on Iran was passed.
Iran, keen to export oil freely again once sanctions are dismantled, has repeatedly said that it has enriched uranium only to create an alternative source of electricity.
According to the resolution, the non-diversion of Iran’s nuclear program to weapon-grade activities is, once more, confirmed and its “peaceful nature” is emphasized, he said.
“This closes the board’s consideration of this item”, the IAEA’s resolution said. “Iran is developing ICBM capabilities, and the sole objective of an Iranian ICBM is to enable delivery of a nuclear weapon to the United States”.
“Significant progress has been made on the Iran nuclear issue, but now is not the time to relax”, Amano said.
“The IAEA will continue to undertake verification activities” and “we’ll have powerful new verification tools at our disposal”, IAEA director general Yukiya Amano said at a press briefing.
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Iran says the resolution would only ban missiles “designed” to carry a nuclear warhead, not “capable of”, so it would not affect its military programme as Tehran does not pursues nuclear weapons.
