Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said the Islamic republic will never hand over images of the interior of some nuclear facilities to the UN nuclear watchdog because the supervision agreement with the agency has expired, the press reported. local.
"The agreement has expired … any registered information will never be released to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the data and images will remain in Iran's possession," Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said.
The announcement could further complicate talks between Iran and the great powers on reactivating the 2015 nuclear deal.
The IAEA and Iran reached the three-month monitoring agreement in February to cushion the blow that Tehran reduced its cooperation with the agency, and allowed it to continue monitoring some activities that would have otherwise been suppressed.
Under that agreement, which was extended for one month on May 24, the IAEA can access the data at a later date.
On Friday, the IAEA demanded an immediate response from Iran on whether it was going to extend the surveillance agreement, prompting an Iranian envoy to reply that Tehran had no obligation to reply.
The parties involved in the talks on the reactivation of the agreement, which began in April in Vienna, have said that there are still important issues to be resolved before the nuclear agreement can be restored.
