While President Joe Biden continues to make concessions to Iran in a desperate bid to restore the Obama-era nuclear deal, the regime is carrying out illegal nuclear activities linked to its weapons program, the latest finding of the United Nations’ atomic agency suggests.
On Monday, the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA admitted that Iran has failed to provide “credible” answers about the presence of nuclear material found at three undeclared sites. Tehran has “not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the Agency’s findings at three undeclared locations in Iran,” International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi disclosed at the agency’s quarterly meeting in Vienna, Austria.
The agency “cannot confirm the correctness and completeness of Iran’s declarations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement,” the UN watchdog added on its website.
The remarks come after Reuters and other news outlets reported that the IAEA had found “traces of uranium found at several undeclared sites” in Iran.
The Times of Israel reported the IAEA chief’s admission:
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi on Monday said Iran has still not provided satisfactory answers over the presence of uranium at three facilities.
“Iran has not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the agency’s findings at three undeclared locations in Iran,” Grossi said Monday, addressing a quarterly meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna.
“Nor has Iran informed the agency of the current location, or locations, of the nuclear material and/or of the equipment contaminated with nuclear material, that was moved from Turquzabad in 2018,” he said.
Grossi noted that in order for the IAEA “to be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, the agency remains ready to re-engage without delay with Iran to resolve these matters.”
Angered by the IAEA’s damning findings, the Iranian regime accused the IAEA of being “a pawn of Zionist Regime.” The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman declared that “the pressure exerted by the Zionist regime [Israel] and some other actors has caused the normal path of agency reports to change from technical to political.”
The Iranian assertions could not be further from the truth. The IAEA has been one of the biggest backers of the 2015 nuclear deal brought about by the efforts of then-President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry. The agency has been critical of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the flawed deal, which gave an economic boost to the Mullah regime without dismantling its advanced nuclear weapons and delivery program.
When President Biden took office in early 2021, he abandoned the Trump administration’s policy of maximum pressure on Iran, instead choosing to appease the regime by easing sanctions — including those placed on its nuclear program.
Biden’s disastrous policy has brought Iran to the threshold of becoming a nuclear power. “Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium has grown to roughly enough material for a nuclear bomb,” The Wall Street Journal reported last Monday, citing an IAEA assessment.
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