IAEA has no right to access Isfahan surveillance: Iran
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The Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency says the UN watchdog has no right to access the Isfahan facility until the nuclear deal is revived.
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Isfahan nuclear facility, Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has no right to access the surveillance footage of Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility until the nuclear deal is revived, Iran's permanent representative to the UN nuclear watchdog Mohammad Reza Ghaebi said Monday.
"Tehran informed the IAEA that it would move the production of centrifuge parts to the central city of Isfahan from a workshop in Karaj," Ghaebi said.
The move comes nearly a month after a standoff between the UN watchdog and Tehran over reinstalling cameras at a centrifuge-parts workshop that had been sabotaged at the hands of the Israeli occupation.
It was announced by Iran's government to the IAEA on January 31, a statement from the UN agency seen by Reuters said.
In December last year, the Iranian foreign ministry asserted that Tehran had no problem with IAEA inspectors inspecting its nuclear facilities on the condition of neutrality and secrecy.
"So long as relations between Iran and the IAEA are technical and based on neutrality, we will have no problem with having inspectors in Iran within the framework of guarantees and nuclear non-proliferation," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said at the time.
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami had ensured that Tehran did not intend to exceed the 60% level of uranium enrichment.
He also ensured that "all our nuclear activities are carried out according to the agreements, statutes, and regulations of the IAEA."
Tehran and the UN agency had reached an agreement to replace the surveillance cameras in the TESA Karaj complex after it had been sabotaged at the hands of the Israeli occupation in June, destroying the agency's surveillance cameras.
