SAEDNEWS: The Iranian Foreign Minister has said that Iran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency has not stopped, stressing that Europe's insistence on snapback mechanism would end their role in Iran's atomic file.
The top Iranian diplomat Abbas Araghchi made the comments in an address to a meeting with ambassadors, chargés-de-affaires, and heads of foreign missions in Tehran at the foreign ministry's compound on Saturday.
He said that Iran is greatefull to all those countries that condemned the recent Israeli aggression on Iran, saying that "About 120 countries condemned the aggression of the Zionist regime and the United States against Iran."
Araghchi said elsewhere that the cooperation with the IAEA has not stopped," adding that "Iran has been an obedient member of the NPT and has cooperated with the Agency."
"Our cooperation with the Agency has not stopped, it has just got a new form. From now on, relations with the Agency will be managed through the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)."
"The Agency's request to continue cooperation with Iran will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the SNSC, and decisions will be made with taking into account safety and security," the minister explained.
"Security and safety are a matter of concern for inspectors approaching attacked nuclear facilities," he elaborated more.
