Iranian Chargé d'Affaires in Britain Mehdi Hosseini Matin wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday that the statement issued by the European trio (Britain, France and Germany) and the United States in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hurts the atmosphere of confidence-building in the Vienna talks.
"With continued terrorist acts & sanctions by #US-Israel against Iran & failure at the IAEA, #US, UK, Germany & France initiated a shameful controversial statement against Iran’s legal remedy measures; hypocritical acts contradict & subvert outlook of a deal negotiated with bona fides," he wrote.
The joint statement was issued by the three European signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the US on Wednesday, targeting Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
The statement, which was read out by Germany's representative, accused the Islamic Republic of refusing to cooperate with the IAEA.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Laurence Norman wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday that "At IAEA meeting this afternoon, 56 countries, of which 23 board members, issued the statement proposed by E3+1 on Iran safeguards non cooperation."
Laura Holgate, the United States ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna, claimed that "about 50 countries have expressed their concern about Iran's lack of cooperation with the agency, and this shows that the international community still wants Iran to fulfill its legal obligations to act as a matter of urgency and cooperate with the IAEA to clarify and resolve all outstanding safeguards issues without delay."
For around three years, the IAEA has raised some allegations on what it called unannounced nuclear activities in some places in Iran, while the first time the Zionist regime put forward the accusation in order to propagate its Iranophobic policies by the use of certain Western media outlets.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has time and again ruled out such accusations, underlining that countries' obligations under the Safeguards Agreement is not unlimited, but the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reiterated anti-Iran claims, alleging that the Islamic Republic has not yet provided reliable answers on source of uranium particles found in three undeclared sites.
Thus, the European trio issued a joint statement, claiming that Iran did not utilized the diplomatic opportunity in the Vienna talks.
But Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani described the statement as unconstructive, advising the three states to stop disrupting diplomatic path and play more active role in finding a way to resolve remaining differences.
Kanaani urged the Europeans to take lessons from the United States' maximum failure in dealing with Iran, because threats and sanctions cannot stop the Iranian nation of following up their legitimate rights and securing their own interests.
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