AhlulBayt News Agency: Iran has warned that it will take retaliatory measures if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopts a resolution against the country in its Monday session.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), stated on state TV that the IAEA should not expect Iran to continue its broad and friendly cooperation if the resolution is passed.
Kamalvandi noted that Iran had previously warned against such resolutions, but they were ignored, leading Tehran to increase its 60 percent uranium enrichment sevenfold, launch 20 chains, and install advanced 13th-generation centrifuges.
He revealed that Tehran has prepared a list of countermeasures should the resolution be adopted in the Monday session.
Kamalvandi explained that some of Iran’s responses will be technical, while others will affect the nature of its cooperation with the IAEA.
“We have repeatedly emphasized that Iran does not enrich uranium above 60 percent, and that momentary increases were due to technical conditions, such as fluctuations in centrifuge feed levels. This issue was resolved, but media and resolutions ignored it,” he stated.
The spokesman accused European nations of pushing for an anti-Iran resolution to trigger the snapback mechanism in the coming months.
Reports indicate that European countries plan to submit a draft resolution to the IAEA Board of Governors, potentially triggering the snapback of all UN sanctions on Tehran under the 2015 nuclear deal before the mechanism expires in October.
An IAEA resolution could further complicate nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States, with Tehran pledging decisive countermeasures if the snapback mechanism is activated.
On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Britain, France, and Germany on X, calling their draft resolution a “strategic mistake”.
“After years of good cooperation with the IAEA, which led to a resolution shutting down false claims of a ‘possible military dimension’ (PMD) to Iran’s nuclear program, my country is once again accused of ‘non-compliance’,” Araghchi wrote.
An IAEA report on Saturday accused Iran of further increasing its stockpile of enriched uranium, a claim Tehran dismissed as biased and politically motivated.
The IAEA report alleged that Iran has sharply increased its uranium stockpile enriched up to 60 percent, nearing the 90 percent threshold required for atomic weapons.
In its quarterly report, the agency stated that as of May 17, Iran possesses approximately 408.6 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent, marking a 133.8-kilogram increase since February.
Iran has denounced the report as “political” and unbalanced, arguing that it was drafted under European pressure.
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