Iran said Sunday it had begun technical inspections of new surveillance cameras for the Karaj nuclear facility after Tehran said previous cameras were damaged in an attack it blamed on Israel.
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According to French news agency AFP, the new cameras, provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency, are to replace those Iran has claimed were damaged on June 23 during an Israeli "sabotage" operation.
Tehran and the Vienna-based IAEA announced Wednesday that they had reached an agreement on replacing the cameras at the TESA nuclear complex in Karaj, west of Tehran, a facility that makes centrifuges.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, listed the three conditions set by Tehran for the reinstallation.
Iran demands "carrying out judicial and security investigations on the dimensions of sabotage; condemnation [of the alleged act of sabotage] by the IAEA; and technical and security inspections of the cameras before installation," he said, speaking on state television.
"The authorization given by Iran did not come in the form of a new agreement, but after the three prerequisites were met," Kamalvandi added.
The IAEA was not able to recover the camera memory cards destroyed in June, and on Friday the IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said he had "doubts" over a missing camera memory unit.
Suspicions have been raised in Iran that June's attack could have been enabled by the hacking of the cameras.
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Grossi, however, dismissed that suggestion as "absurd," insisting the monitors were tamper-proof and that, once installed they had no means of remote data transmission.
For the rest of the cameras at Karaj, as well as at other sites where the IAEA's activity has been restricted since February, Iran has said the footage will only be available to the IAEA once US sanctions are lifted.
How and when Iran could get sanctions relief is one of the topics being discussed at the Vienna talks.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
