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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