Iran authorizes IAEA to re-install cameras at Karaj nuclear plant | Nuclear Energy News

The IAEA will have no access to camera recordings, and will be installed “after Iranian examinations by Iranian experts.”

Tehran, Iran – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has again given Iran access to a facility to manufacture parts for Karaj centrifuges to replace cameras that were damaged or destroyed in a sabotage attack site in June this year.

On Wednesday, Iran said it had “voluntarily” agreed to grant access to global nuclear surveillance in order to prevent misunderstandings, according to a report by a Nournews outlet close to Iranian security forces.

The report added that the security and judicial investigation into the Israeli attack had been completed and that the IAEA had recently joined Iran’s request and condemned the attack.

Under the law passed by Iran’s tough parliament, the IAEA will not have access to camera recordings that will be installed “by Iranian experts after technical examinations.”

Since February 2021, Iran has suspended the voluntary implementation of the Addendum Protocol, a document that provided the IAEA with extensive monitoring capabilities, as part of the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Cameras have not stopped recording, but Iran has said it will hand over the recordings when the United States – which unilaterally abandoned the nuclear deal in 2018 – lifts sanctions imposed on Tehran.

Representatives of the world powers of the United Nations Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) party, as the agreement is formally known, are currently in Vienna to revive the agreement.

If implemented, the announcement of the Karaj Workshop addresses one of the most pressing issues between Iran and the IAEA. he has been calling for months to regain access to the site.

Earlier on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said at a meeting of Iranian diplomats in the capital Tehran that Iran and the IAEA had reached a “good deal” on Tuesday night, adding that a delegation from the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) had reached Vienna.

He also reiterated his criticism of the agency, saying that the IAEA is conducting political rhetoric that goes beyond its technical mandate.

In Vienna, Iran submitted two documents containing its proposals to lift sanctions and fully comply with its nuclear program.

Western signatories to the agreement the text is not welcome, saying that they are deleting some of the progress made in the six talks that ended in June, and that they sometimes go beyond the original nuclear deal, which Iran says it rejects.