{"id":56314,"date":"2023-02-03T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56314"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:12:06","slug":"statement-by-france-germany-the-united-kingdom-and-the-united-states-on-the-iaeas-latest-report-on-irans-nuclear-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56314","title":{"rendered":"Statement by France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the IAEA\u2019s Latest Report on Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02\/03\/2023 06:03 PM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p><em>The following joint statement was released by the Governments of the France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Begin Text:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We, the governments of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, take note of the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran has implemented a substantial change in the configuration of some of its centrifuges without informing the Agency in advance. \u00a0These centrifuges produce high-enriched uranium up to 60 percent and are located at the Fordow Enrichment Plant.<\/p>\n<p>As stated by the Agency, this unnotified change is inconsistent with Iran\u2019s obligations under its NPT-required Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. Such lack of required notifications undermines the Agency\u2019s ability to maintain timely detection at Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. \u00a0The newly reported change in configuration of centrifuge cascades used to produce near-weapons-grade uranium underscores the need for Iran to meet all its safeguards reporting obligations and to accept whatever safeguards monitoring the IAEA sees as necessary in light of Iran\u2019s production of such highly enriched uranium.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian claims that this action was carried out in error are inadequate. \u00a0We judge Iran\u2019s actions based on the impartial and objective reports of the IAEA, not Iran\u2019s purported intent.<\/p>\n<p>We recall that the production of high-enriched uranium by Iran at the Fordow Enrichment Plant carries significant proliferation-related risks and is without any credible civilian justification.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s actions are all the more concerning since it has stopped the implementation of its commitments on transparency and verification under the JCPOA, including implementation of its Additional Protocol, for close to two years. \u00a0Iran has also offered no credible answer yet to the IAEA\u2019s outstanding questions as part of the IAEA\u2019s safeguards investigation, despite the adoption of two resolutions on this issue by the Board of Governors last year.<\/p>\n<p>We call on Iran to comply with all its legally-binding international obligations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA and to fully cooperate with the Agency in the application of effective safeguards at Fordow.<\/p>\n<p><em>End Text.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/03\/2023 06:03 PM EST &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56315,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56314\/revisions\/56315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}