| ran threatens to reduce cooperation with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency if the agency’s board of governors passes a resolution condemning Tehran for not informing the UN body earlier that it is building a second nuclear enrichment plant. | |
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According to the IAEA rules enrichment facilities need not be disclosed until six months “before it is infused with gas” and operations begin.
Iran had said the new facility near the holy city of Qom won”t be operational for 18 months so Iran has not violated any IAEA requirements.
Tehran’s cooperation with the agency “would be reduced to the minimum we are legally obliged,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, told German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday.
Diplomats from the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) have drafted a resolution that plan to present it to the IAEA board today for approval.
Soltanieh said a vote on against Iran would “damage the currently constructive atmosphere” and “have long-term consequences.”
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