Iran will cancel its recent agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency if Europe takes action to condemn Iran in international institutions, spokesman for the Iranian government Ali Rabiei announced on Tuesday.
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"If any decision is made to condemn Iran, our leadership will respond appropriately, and consider a complete withdrawal from the understands we reached with the IAEA," Rabiei told the Tasnim news agency.
In February, after Iran announced that it had passed legislation that would constrain the work of IAEA inspectors in the country, the IAEA made a deal with Iran to allow partial oversight to continue.
On Monday, IAEA head Rafael Grossi said that the temporary agreement with Iran to allow United Nations inspectors continued access to the country's atomic facilities was less comprehensive than before, but laid the groundwork for the return to full verification measures if and when Tehran allowed it.
Under the agreement, Iran will no longer share surveillance footage of its nuclear facilities with the IAEA but it has promised to preserve the tapes for three months. It will then hand them over to the IAEA if it is granted sanctions relief. Otherwise, Iran has vowed to erase the tapes, narrowing the window for a diplomatic breakthrough.
Grossi said the deal meant inspectors could still keep track of the quantity of enriched uranium, for example, but have lost their view of other activities such as Iran's mining operations and its research and development.
That means they're not able to form as complete a picture of Iran's nuclear program, Grossi suggested.
"With a nuclear program which has the breadth and depth of the Iranian one – complex, big, sophisticated – we need everything," he said.
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Rabiei repeated that Iran refused to negotiate with the US over its nuclear program, saying, "We do not accept the hypocritical rhetoric of the United States. We will not sit down to any negotiations or discussions under the sanctions the Trump administration put on us are removed."
Meanwhile, various Iranian government spokesmen have made a series of vehemently anti-Israel statements.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he called "prime minister of the Zionist regime," suffered from "an obsessive mental illness when it comes to everything concerning Iran. Despite the wretched situation we see in Israeli territory, they see the declarations about Iran as a way of evading their situation."
However, Khatibzadeh denied that Iran was involved in the attack on the Israeli-owned ship Helios Ray in the Gulf of Oman on Feb. 26, and said that the Israeli accusations of Iranian involvement were designed to hurt Iran's position.
