Eslami: Europe toughened stance after Iran-IAEA agreement

Tehran - BORNA - On September 9, Iran's Foreign Minister Minister Abbas Araghchi and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reached an agreement on practical modalities to resume cooperation after a meeting in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.

“European countries had consistently cited Iran’s cooperation with the agency as one of their primary conditions,” AEOI head Mohammad Eslami said at the end of his trip to Vienna, where he attended and addressed the 69th IAEA General Conference, held from September 15 to 19.

“However, precisely from the moment the agreement was signed between our esteemed Foreign Minister [Abbas Araghchi] and the IAEA Director General [Rafael Grossi], we witnessed newer and more rigid positions from them,” he added.

Eslami was referring to France, Britain, and Germany notifying the UN Security Council of their decision to invoke the so-called snapback mechanism—a process to reinstate all UN sanctions against Iran within 30 days.

On June 25, the Iranian Parliament unanimously passed legislation requiring the government to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA.

It came a day after Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations, managed to impose a halt to Israeli-US aggression that also targeted three of the country’s nuclear sites in a clear violation of international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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