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The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that still no decision has been taken to extend or not to extend monitoring deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“Still no decision has been taken about agreement or no agreement, or how to continue or not to continue cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a regular news briefing.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the IAEA agreed for a three-month monitoring deal in February to give time to the negotiators to possibly revive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. However, after the three-month period the negotiators failed to reach an agreement on revitalizing the JCPOA. To give more time to the negotiators the monitoring deal was extended for another month. The extension came to an end on June 24.
The decision to reduce the IAEA monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities followed a ratification by the Iranian parliament in retaliation to the abrogation of the JCPOA by the United States and imposition of illegal sanctions on Iran. The decision by the Iranian parliament was taken late last year.
