Abbas Araghchi made the remarks speaking to national Iranian TV on Wednesday night.
The Iranian minister said that now the IAEA knows and its Director General should know that completely new conditions have been created, adding that “we have the parliamentary law and the conditions on the ground have changed.” After the Israeli aggression with the help of the United States that bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities, the Iranian parliament approved a piece of legislation to suspend cooperation with the IAEA. No inspectors have remained in Iran.
“Several of our nuclear facilities have been attacked and bombed and have suffered damage. It is natural that, for both reasons, both because of the changes in the field and because of the parliamentary law, a new era must begin in relations with the Agency,” Araghchi said.
He explained that this means that any cooperation with the Agency from now on must be done through Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and with its approval.
“Regarding our nuclear program, we must say that the Agency has not performed well, especially in the last few months when they prepared a report, before the war, which led to a resolution in the Board of Governors,” the top diplomat added.
Araghchi continued to note that the Iranian nuclear facilities were all registered with the International Energy Atomic Agency (IAEA) and under its supervision, and the IAEA inspectors regularly inspected them when they were assaulted.
He reiterated Iran’s viewpoint to say that “In our opinion, three European countries are not considered members of the JCPOA and essentially do not have the right to invoke snapback mechanism.”
The minister added that, “if they do so, Iran will respond and they will permanently lose their role in nuclear negotiations.”
