🔻Baqayi: The IAEA visits have only been to the Bushehr nuclear facilities

🔻Baqayi: The IAEA visits have only been to the Bushehr nuclear facilities

Ismail Baqayi, in his press conference today, said that the visits by the IAEA inspectors were “only to the Bushehr nuclear facilities.”

The spokesperson of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “we have not suspended our safeguards obligations” and that “according to the bilateral agreement with Russia and based on the safeguards obligations, these inspections are carried out periodically.”

Mr. Baqayi, emphasizing Iran’s position, said: “As long as the IAEA does not acknowledge the role of the United States and Israel in the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the current situation in our dealings with the agency will not change.”

In recent days, withdrawal from the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) has been among the issues discussed by Iran’s officials and media.

The Assembly of Experts for Leadership, in a statement, called for a review of withdrawal from the NPT and a reconsideration of Iran’s defense doctrine.

In recent weeks, a number of Iranian officials and members of parliament have called for a review of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear doctrine, and some have openly spoken about the necessity of nuclear weapons.

Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on 9 Aban said that the discussion of changing the nuclear doctrine is being raised within the establishment, but that no official decision has yet been made.