‘IAEA reports, proof of Iran honesty’

“The IAEA has been saying all along that Iran has honored the agreement that was made in November, [that is] the JPOA, Joint Plan of Action. This is something they have repeated over and over since the past several months,” Nader Baqerzadeh said in an interview with Press TV.

“I think the payments to Iran were based on the IAEA saying that those conditions have been met and that 20-percent [enriched] uranium had been diluted, and the other conditions that were set forth for Iran to accomplish [have been met],” he added, alluding to the terms of the Geneva agreement.

Following the November 2013 interim nuclear deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, Tehran would have access to its USD 4.2 billion in frozen funds globally. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has so far received six portions of the frozen oil revenues.

Under the deal, Iran undertook to limit certain aspects of its nuclear program in return for some sanctions relief.

According to a monthly update by the UN nuclear agency released on Friday, Iran continues to meet its commitments under the accord.

This comes as Iran and its negotiating partners opened a new round of talks in New York on Friday to overcome differences in the way of concluding a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

The talks between the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and negotiators from the six countries are to continue until the end of next week.
/SR