The governments of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America issued the following statement on the adoption of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors resolution on Iran:
"We, the Governments of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, welcome the adoption of the IAEA Board of Governors resolution on Iran. The resolution responds to Iran's continued failure to provide the IAEA with information and cooperation, which is necessary to clarify long-standing unresolved issues relating to undeclared nuclear material found at several sites in Iran. These issues are critical to the Agency's ability to provide assurances about the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear programme. Iran is legally obliged under the NPT Safeguards Agreement to cooperate fully with the IAEA and to account for all nuclear material and activities.
In its last resolution in June, the Board stated that further action would be necessary unless Iran provided the Agency with the necessary, full and unequivocal cooperation in resolving all outstanding safeguards issues and in fulfilling its safeguards obligations under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. This action follows several years of repeated requests by the Board calling on Iran to resolve these issues. Despite the Director General's continued efforts to engage in substantive dialogue, Iran has not provided the information or cooperation needed to address them, and has instead responded to the Board's calls with threats and provocations. Since 2019, the Agency has been trying to clarify outstanding safeguards issues and make progress. Iran has consistently failed to meet the commitments it has made to the Agency for nearly five years.
With this new resolution, the IAEA Board renews its declaration that it is essential and urgent that Iran resolve these issues, as well as its support for the Agency's efforts to engage Iran to that end. It asks the Agency to produce a comprehensive and updated assessment summarising the Agency's findings over five years of investigation. We hope that Iran will take the opportunity between now and the release of this report to finally provide the information and cooperation needed to resolve these issues so that the Agency can provide assurances that Iran's programme remains exclusively peaceful and so that the Board can conclude its deliberations on this matter. Failing that, it will be important for the Board to continue to address the challenge posed by Iran's continued refusal to comply with its nuclear verification obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, including the credibility of the IAEA's global safeguards regime.
We note with grave concern Iran's announcement on 22 November 2024 that, instead of responding to the resolution with cooperation, it intends to respond by further expanding its nuclear programme in a way that has no credible peaceful justification. We expect Iran to once again take the path of dialogue and cooperation with the Agency."
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) will commission a significant number of new uranium enrichment centrifuges in response to an anti-Iran resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Thursday, it states in a joint statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the AEOI.
"Iran's specialized agencies at various levels have previously warned that taking any confrontational measures and using the Governing Council [IAEA] to promote illegal, politically motivated statements will face retaliation. In this context, the head of the AEOI has ordered appropriate measures, including the launch of a significant number of new advanced centrifuges of various types," said in a statement posted on the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Telegram channel.
According to him, any further retaliatory measures will only be taken "for the protection of national interests and the further development of the peaceful nuclear industry" in line with the growing needs of the country "within the framework of its rights and obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons".
IAEA Board of Governors accepted On 21 November, a resolution proposed by the European troika (UK, Germany and France) criticising Iran for allegedly failing to cooperate with the organisation. According to the document, the IAEA should produce a detailed report on Iran's nuclear programme by spring 2025. Nineteen countries voted in favour of the resolution, while Russia, Burkina Faso and China opposed it and 12 countries abstained.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi On 16 November, he warned that Tehran would accelerate the development of its nuclear programme if the IAEA adopted the anti-Iran resolution.
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