VIENNA (HRNW) – The UN atomic energy watchdog said Thursday that Iran was removing 27 surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities, warning this could be a “fatal blow” to negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
Talks began in April last year to bring the United States back into that landmark agreement, after then president Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 and left it hanging by a thread.
The negotiations also aim to lift sanctions against Iran and bring it back into compliance with nuclear commitments it made to world powers as part of the deal.
But the ever-delicate dialogue has been stalled since March — and, raising tensions, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) members on Wednesday passed a resolution censuring Iran over its lack of cooperation with the watchdog.
Iran has condemned the rebuke as “unconstructive” and announced on Wednesday it had disconnected some IAEA cameras monitoring its nuclear sites.
Be the first to comment on "Iran removal of monitoring cameras may scupper nuclear talks: IAEA"