Countries Submit Motion To Censure Iran To UN Nuclear Watchdog

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the United Nations-backed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

The text was submitted overnight from Monday to Tuesday, according to a European diplomat. The vote is likely to happen on Thursday during the week-long meeting of the IAEA's 35-member Board of Governors.

Motion by the US, Britain, France and Germany

The motion by the United States, Britain, France and Germany is a sign of growing Western impatience after talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran stalled in March. The resolution urging Iran to cooperate fully with IAEA marks the first time since June 2020. A similar motion censuring Iran was adopted in 2020.

Reportedly, China and Russia have warned that any resolution could disrupt the negotiation process. Russia's ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said in a tweet that “Russia will not submit a motion.”

About Iran nuclear deal

In 2015, Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers. Under the agreement, Iran confirmed to limit its nuclear activity to civilian purposes, and in return, western countries agreed to drop their economic sanctions against Iran. This deal lifted most of the sanctions imposed on Iran.

However, the deal began to fall apart when former US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the deal in 2018. He also reimposed sanctions on Iran.

The negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal started in April 2021 between Britain, China, France, Germany, Iran and Russia, with the United States (US) taking part indirectly. The countries were focused on bringing the United States back into the deal, lifting sanctions and getting Iran to scale back its stepped-up nuclear programme. In April 2022, Iranian lawmakers set their conditions for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.

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