Iran enrichment limits subject to political decision, IAEA says

IAEA chief says duration of any future Iranian enrichment freeze is a political, not technical, decision for negotiators. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Iran enrichment limits subject to political decision, IAEA says

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The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog stated on Monday that the length of any future moratorium on Iran’s uranium enrichment would be determined solely through political negotiations, not technical assessments. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi made the remarks to reporters in Seoul, emphasizing that decisions on how long Iran should be bound by enrichment limits under a potential agreement with the United States are inherently political in nature. His comments come amid ongoing, delicate talks between Washington and Tehran, with the reported positions of the two sides far apart on this critical issue. Grossi’s framing of the enrichment timeline as a political question underscores a fundamental reality of the stalled negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The original agreement, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018, imposed strict but temporary limits on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. A core challenge in the current talks is not just restoring those limits but defining their new duration, a task that falls squarely to diplomats and political leaders rather than the IAEA’s inspectors and scientists. The significance of Grossi’s statement is amplified by the widely reported chasm between the two sides’ opening positions. According to diplomatic sources, the United States has proposed a moratorium on Iranian enrichment lasting up to twenty years. Tehran, however, has reportedly countered with a proposal for a freeze lasting only five years. This ten-to-fifteen-year gap represents one of the most substantial obstacles to a renewed agreement, touching on core issues of long-term security guarantees for the West and sovereignty and economic planning for Iran. For Iran, the duration of restrictions is directly linked to the scale and durability of sanctions relief it can secure. A shorter freeze allows for a quicker return to a more advanced nuclear program, which it views as a sovereign right, while a longer one would demand correspondingly broader and more irrevocable economic concessions...

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