Benjamin Netanyahu He moved on to action, the Israeli premier exploited the formal support of an international institution. The International Agency for Atomic Energy (AIEA) was categorical: for the first time in twenty years, he pointed his finger at Iranaccusing it openly of do not respect the commitments made on the nuclear program.
In Vienna, the AIEA Board of Directors approved a hard resolution that highlights the “Numerous shortcomings” of Iran in responding to the body’s requests on its atomic program. The document passed with 19 votes in favor of 35, including the heavy ones of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. An unequivocal signal by the West. And there is more: the agency’s report talks about a “general lack of cooperation” and reveals that Tehran is now in possession of uranium enriched at 60% in sufficient quantities to build nine nuclear newspapers.
The director of the AIEA, Rafael Grossi, did not use words. Interviewed by Corriere della Serahe explained: «There is a difference between fissile material and bomb. But they have already arrived on the material: they have accumulated enough. To build a weapon, other technological passages are needed, certainly not outside the reach of the Iranians. They admit: we have all the pieces of the puzzle ». And today he offered his willingness to fly to Tehran to inspect the Natanz website, while the Fordow and Isfahan plants – at least for now – have remained outside the viewfinder. The key phrase of the report, which in Jerusalem sounds like music for the ears of Netanyahu, is clear: the agency cannot guarantee that the Iranian nuclear program is exclusively peaceful. A formula that, in fact, has widened the door to A preventive action.
Obviously Tehran’s reaction It was immediate: the resolution was called “political”, and as an answer the Iranian government has announced its intention to open a new enrichment site and enhance the Fordow centrifuges with the latest generation machinery. Iran continues to support, like an increasingly difficult mantra to defend, that its nuclear program has exclusively civil purposes. Yet, since the Trump administration withdrawn the United States from the historic agreement of 2015 (the famous JCPOA, signed with the main world powers), the Islamic Republic has resumed to systematically violate the limits envisaged for the enrichment of uranium.
THE negotiations for a new understanding With Washington they were already uphill. Now they seem definitively set: the sixth round of interviews, scheduled for Sunday in Oman, has been canceled. To confirm it, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who accuses the West of undermining the dialogue with “unacceptable” pressures. But now the time of negotiations seems to have expired. Netanyahu has been convinced for years that the only way to stop the Ayatollah atomic is only one: hit them before it’s too late.
Brussels also took a position. THE’European Union “It supports the resolution adopted by the Council of the International Agency for Atomic Energy (AIEA) which invites Iran to restore full cooperation with the Agency and fully respect its obligations”. The spokesman for the European Commission for Foreign Affairs, Anouar El Anouni, added: “This resolution comes after several references to the Council to Iran so that better cooperation with the agency, and after an exhaustive relationship of the General Director of the Agency on the implementation of the obligations provided for by the safeguard of the Treaty of non -proliferation by Iran. – added the EU diplomat – and we invite Iran to moderation and avoid any step that can further aggravate the situation “. We just have to monitor the evolution of the situation.
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