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Iran’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi said on 20 November that the IAEA will announce its final assessment about Iran’s nuclear program by 1-2 December.
This will clear the way for the IAEA board of governors to confirm that Iran is complying with the nuclear roadmap and other nuclear-related conditions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July. That in turn will automatically trigger Implementation Day, the moment when nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran by the US, the UN and the EU will be relaxed.
IAEA director general Yukiya Amano said on 17 November that he expects to deliver the final assessment of Iran’s compliance no later than 15 December.
Najafi has disconnected almost a quarter of its uranium-enriching centrifuges in less than a month.
“They have been dismantling centrifuges that did not contain hexafluoride,” Najafi said, referring to uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock for centrifuges.
“Dismantling centrifuges that have or have had hexafluoride is a much more complicated thing than the clean ones.”
Najafi said that the IAEA’s quarterly report indicates that all the Iran’s nuclear activities have been under inspection of the IAEA and have not diverted from the peaceful purposes.
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