“Political moves can be made by any group at any moment, yet the current trend does not show that the atmosphere will go toward a resolution or move that would compel Iran to take firm and decisive legal reactions,” Mohammad Eslami told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday.
Eslami further explained that the four safeguards issues between Iran and the IAEA have been reduced to two, given Iran’s cooperation with the agency and its clarifications of the issues.
Those cases were rooted in the enmities against Iran, as well as efforts to frame the country and accusations leveled against the Islamic Republic by its enemies, he said.
“We are facing enemies who have been raising these issues for 22 years, and we have always cooperated [with the IAEA] patiently, very transparently and interactively,” the Iranian nuclear chief added.
Safeguards questions about Iran’s nuclear program were raised four years ago when the IAEA opened a new case against the country based on fake documents provided by the Israeli regime alleging uranium traces at four undeclared locations in Iran.
Iran has repeatedly rejected the allegations, which were initially made by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and subsequently echoed by Western media and officials.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Eslami said as long as the West does not fulfill its obligations under the US-abandoned nuclear deal and the sanctions are not terminated, Iran will continue to exceed the limits on its nuclear activities.
“European countries cannot expect us to fully implement the JCPOA (nuclear deal) while they do not fulfill any of their obligations,” he said.
Iran and six world powers – the US, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany – signed the JCPOA in 2015. In an unprovoked move, however, the US left the deal in 2018 and reinstated the sanctions that the deal had lifted.
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