Final week, the 35-nation Board of Governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog handed a decision calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and reverse its current ban on inspectors. | Photograph credit score: Reuters
Iran known as on the Group of Seven (G7) on June 16 to distance itself from the “harmful insurance policies of the previous,” Iranian International Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani mentioned, referring to a G7 assertion condemning the current escalation of Iran’s nuclear program.
On June 14, the G7 warned Iran towards advancing its nuclear enrichment program and mentioned they might be prepared to take additional steps if Tehran transferred ballistic missiles to Russia.
“Any try to hyperlink the battle in Ukraine with bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia is an act that solely has biased political aims,” Kanaani mentioned, including that some international locations are “resorting to false claims to proceed sanctions” towards Iran.
Final week, the 35-nation Board of Governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog handed a decision calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and reverse its current ban on inspectors.
Iran responded by shortly putting in extra centrifuges to complement uranium at its Fordow website and commenced putting in others, in response to a report by the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA).
Kanaani added that Tehran would proceed its “constructive interplay and technical cooperation” with the IAEA, however known as its decision “politically biased.”
Iran is now enriching uranium to 60% purity, about 90% weapons-grade, and has sufficient materials enriched to that degree, if additional enriched, for 3 nuclear weapons, in response to an IAEA criterion.