Un Nuclear Agency Orders Iran To Cooperate As New Nuclear Deal Looks Less Likely

The resolution drafted by the United States, Britain, France and Germany says the council “decides that it is necessary and urgent” for Iran to explain the origin of the uranium particles and more generally to give the IAEA all the answers it requires. “Iran must now provide the necessary cooperation, not more empty promises,” the United States said in a statement to the board shortly before the resolution passed with 26 votes in favor, five abstentions and two countries absent, according to diplomats at the meeting. . Only Russia and China voted against. The resolution is not the first time the board has approved action against Iran, but the current resolution contains stronger language that suggests a possible diplomatic escalation down the line. REVOLUTIONARY IRAN KISS’S PHOTOGRAPH IS FOR HOURS AS A BEAUTIFUL ACT OF RESPONSE AGAINST THE STATUS FILE – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP) One possible action the council could take in the future is a referral to the UN Security Council (UNSC), Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. “The firmer language from the IAEA’s governing board on Iran’s failures to explain traces of artificial uranium particles at past nuclear facilities could serve as a possible slippage for a UNSC referral, something Tehran has long sought to avoid with half measures and empty promises of cooperation. ” said Taleblu. WARNING: IRAN’S SECURITY FORCES TARGET YOUTH PROTESTERS WITH INCREASINGLY VIOLENT CRACKDOWN Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, reviews an honor guard during his official departure ceremony, September 19, 2022, as he leaves Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport to attend the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Taleblou explained that “criticizing Iran for these shortcomings should be the price floor” rather than the price ceiling of a new “pressure-based approach to address Tehran’s nuclear violations.” “If there is no transparency and cooperation, then for the sake of the integrity of the global non-proliferation regime, Tehran must face consequences,” Taleblou added. “This includes exercising the ‘snapback’ option built into the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).” The IAEA’s move comes as talks on a nuclear deal have stalled and Robert Maley, the US envoy for Iran affairs, he said last month that he would “waste no time” in trying to revive talks with Iran in light of Tehran’s violent crackdown on anti-government protesters and its support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Iran May Use Mass Executions to Crack Down on Anti-Hijam Protests in Country, Rights Group Warns Iranians in Tehran, October 27, 2022, protest the recent death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the country’s morality police. (AP/Middle East Images, File) Over the summer, Iranian officials rejected an EU proposal and made more demands in late August and early September. Since then, anti-government protests have begun broke out in Iran in response to the police death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained by Iran’s morality police in September for not properly covering her hair with the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, which is mandatory for Iranian women . Although O’Malley said earlier this week that the United States was continuing its strategy of “sanctions and pressure,” an Iranian official said this week that there was currently a “non-stop exchange of messages” between the two countries on reviving the 2015 deal scrapped by former President Donald Trump, Anadolu Agency reported this week. Lisa Daftari, an expert on Iran relations and editor-in-chief of the Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital that the recent IAEA development “calls into question” the Biden administration’s approach to Iran and provides evidence that any nuclear deal would be a deal. with a partner who has shown no reason to trust. WHITE HOUSE SHOULD DEMAND REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN AND TAKE DISCOVERY SANCTIONS OFF THE TABLE, REPORT SAYS “To date, the Biden administration has been pressured to put the deal on hold both because of the demands of the regime, but more because of the movement of young Iranian protesters, which has succeeded in gaining global attention,” Daftari said. “A development like this underscores once again the importance of supporting the movement in Iran, which seeks to remove a government that cannot be trusted to lead its people or acquire nuclear weapons.” Taleblou told Fox News Digital that regardless of any resolution passed against Iran, “the country’s nuclear advances and diplomatic intransigence are increasingly what are throwing cold water on the prospect of nuclear diplomacy with the Islamic Republic.” “Ultimately, Western diplomats must ask themselves, what is the point of such diplomacy with a regime that slaughters protesters, proliferates weapons, undertakes wars of imperial aggression and continues to avoid nuclear transparency?” he said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Reuters contributed to this report. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips at [email protected]