Iran says IAEA report on undeclared sites 'not fair'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Khatibzadeh said Iran was determined to see the lifting of all US sanctions on its economy.
47% : While most of the activities concerned are thought to date back to the early 2000s, sources say that one of the sites, in the Turquzabad district of Tehran, may have been used for storing uranium as recently as 2018.
46% : The agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, gave Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on its nuclear activities.
44% : Iran saw an Israeli hand in the IAEA's latest findings.
44% : "The pause in the negotiations is due to the US not giving an answer to the initiatives proposed by Iran and Europe."
43% : "Unfortunately, this report does not reflect the reality of the negotiations between Iran and the IAEA," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters, referring to the Monday report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
42% : The IAEA's report came as talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers have seen no major developments since March.
42% : In the report, the watchdog said it still had questions which were "not clarified" regarding nuclear material previously found at three sites -- Marivan, Varamin and Turquzabad -- which had not been declared by Iran as having hosted nuclear activities.
42% :"Iran considers this approach unconstructive to the current close relations and cooperation between the country and the IAEA," he said, adding: "The agency should be aware of the destructive consequences of publishing such one-sided reports.
38% :Iran and the IAEA agreed in March on an approach for resolving the issue of the sites, one of the remaining obstacles to reviving the 2015 deal.
38% : "The issues being discussed between Iran and the US are related to the economic benefits to Iran and removing all the elements of the maximum pressure by the US," he said.
36% : One of those commitments was that Iran should not enrich uranium to levels higher than 3.67 percent.
30% :Enrichment levels of around 90 percent are required for development of a nuclear warhead, something Iran has consistently denied it has any ambition to do.
29% : But the pact was left hanging by a thread when US president Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out in 2018 and reimposed biting sanctions, prompting Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments.

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