During his weekly press briefing on Monday, Baqaei responded to a question raised about the West’s push for an anti-Iran resolution at the I.A.E.A.’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna this week.
He said that the Islamic Republic had taken steps in the past one or two years in cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog but the three European countries and the United States often abused the agency for their own political purposes.
According to the spokesperson, the I.A.E.A. decided to first prepare a report under the political pressure and influence from the Western countries, and subsequently the same countries abused that report.
He underlined that Iran’s interactions with the agency, from the very beginning, had been based on its commitments arising from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.
France, Britain, and Germany, and the United States are reportedly seeking a draft resolution that accuses Iran of “non-compliance” with safeguards obligations for the first time in almost 20 years, an issue that was declared closed within the framework of the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Tehran has already warned that any such move will be met with a serious and decisive response.
IRNA