UNITED NATIONS, July 6. /TASS/. Russia rejects attempts to deny Iran the right to peacefully run its nuclear power generation program under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya has said.
The Russian envoy told the UN Security Council session on non-proliferation that certain countries were deliberately portraying a distorted picture of the Iran-IAEA relationships.
"Our Western colleagues continue to speculate about the discovery of uranium enriched up to 83.7 % at one of Iranian facilities. What they prefer not to mention is that reports of the Secretary-General, 2231 Facilitator, and IAEA Director-General clearly say that this issue has been resolved," Nebenzya said.
"We strongly reject any such attempts to manipulate objective data, and equally all attempts to dispute Iran’s right to explore and develop atoms for peace under the IAEA supervision," he continued. "We are very interested in a calm and trustful development of relations between Iran and the Agency."
Nebenzya added that the international community receives all facts regarding the state of Iran’s nuclear program exactly from the reports of the Director-General of the IAEA.
"As soon as full-fledged implementation of the JCPOA resumes, the Additional Protocol to the Safeguards Agreement will be in effect again. All responsible states should facilitate rather than impede this process," the Russian diplomat said.
The JCPOA was signed with Tehran in 2015 by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in order to address the crisis over Iran’s nuclear research. In 2018, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, pulled out of the agreement. The current US leader, Joe Biden, has repeatedly signaled his willingness to bring Washington back into the nuclear deal. However, in the spring of 2022 the negotiations to breathe new life into the JCPOA came to a grinding halt in the wake of US-Iran relations deteriorating.