Iran stays committed to the nuclear deal, while being prepared for any scenario

Tabnak – International Atomic Energy Agency has once again admitted that Iran has been in compliance with its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal. However, as the other parties of the deal has so far dialed to fulfill their own tasks, Tehran is ready for any scenario regarding the total failure of the deal.

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano once again verified Iran’s full commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the multilateral agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.

In an introductory statement to a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on Monday, Amano said his report on verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) covers relevant activities of the IAEA in Iran in the last few months.

“Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It is essential that Iran continues to fully implement those commitments,” he added.

“The Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement. Evaluations regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran continue,” Amano noted.

The IAEA is responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities as per the nuclear deal and should also help Iran develop its nuclear energy program.

Meanwhile and as part of a precautionary approach for the possible failure of the nuclear deal, Iran has built a highly-advanced hall meant to host manufacturing of modern centrifuges, the country’s nuclear chief says.

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said the facility has been built on the orders of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, IRNA reported on Sunday.

“The hall has now been well equipped and rendered operational,” Salehi said. “We take an ad hoc decision in proportion to each circumstance,” he said of the measure.

“Another example was the decree issued concerning [manufacturing] of nuclear propulsion devices,” the official said, noting that the project would take 10 to 15 years to complete. Both the measures lie within the limits set by the country’s 2015 nuclear agreement with the six world powers.

The AEOI chief, however, cautioned that the country could suspend some of the restrictions it has accepted as part of the agreement such as the ones concerning the volume and level of enrichment, or eventually completely leave the accord. Concerning the prospect, though, he said, “I hope that with the help of the 4+1 countries, this would never happen since all will suffer [as a result].”

US President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal in May, and said he would reinstate the US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose "the highest level" of economic bans on the Islamic Republic.

The United Nations, the European Union, which coordinated the talks leading to the deal, and the other signatories to the JCPOA had all warned Washington against the withdrawal, calling the agreement a pivot of regional and international peace and security.