The Islamic Republic of Iran said the country will soon begin the process of running technical-security checks on monitoring cameras at the nuclear facility in the city of Karaj, near Tehran.
“Iran conditioned the replacement of damaged cameras at Karaj installations on three things, namely ‘conducting a judicial-security investigation into the act of sabotage which took place’, ‘the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) condemning the act of sabotage,’ and ‘Iran carrying out technical-security examinations on the new cameras before they are installed,’” said the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi.
There was an alleged sabotage attack on the site last June, which Tehran says it was carried out by Israel.
“Iran’s voluntary issuance of a permit to replace these cameras was not within the framework of a new agreement, but came after these three preconditions were met,” Kamalvandi added.
“Iran is to begin the process of technical-security checks on the cameras on Sunday, December 19, 2021,” he explained.
Kamalvandi claimed that their ongoing talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is unrelated to the talks between Tehran and world powers in Vienna on saving a 2015 nuclear deal.
“Iran-IAEA talks which took place between Mr. Eslami and Rafael Grossi had nothing to do with the [Vienna] negotiations and were just ordinary talks within the framework of the current issues between the two sides; so, the claim that Iran did that under pressure is not true,” he said.
“From the very beginning, we hadn’t said that we would allow the cameras to be installed; rather, we had subjected it to the fulfillment of three preconditions,” said the spokesman.
