- Title: IRAN-NUCLEAR/STATE U.S. says confident in IAEA monitoring arrangement with Iran
- Date: 19th August 2015
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (AUGUST 19, 2015) (STATE TV) JOHN KIRBY, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ENTERING AND WALKING TO PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN KIRBY, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAYING: "We're confident in the agency's technical plans for investigating the possible military dimensions of Iran's former program. Issues that in some cases date back more than a decade. Just as importantly, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is comfortable with arrangements which are unique to the agency's investigation of Iran's historical activities. When it comes to monitoring Iran's behaviour going forward the IAEA has separately developed the most robust inspection regime ever peacefully negotiated to ensure Iran's current program remains exclusively peaceful." MEMBERS OF THE PRESS AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN KIRBY, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAYING: "I can tell you that Secretary Kerry remains fully confident that the IAEA will manage their part of these requirements just as ably and efficiently as they do anywhere else in the world." KIRBY AT THE END OF THE NEWS CONFERENCE
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- Story Text: The State Department reiterated Wednesday (August 19) it's confidence in the negotiated agreement with Iran regarding, in particular, a reported arrangement that allows for Iran to utilize Iranian nuclear experts to monitor it's own program.
"We're confident in the agency's technical plans for investigating the possible military dimensions of Iran's former program," said spokesman John Kirby. "When it comes to monitoring Iran's behavior going forward the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has separately developed the most robust inspection regime ever peacefully negotiated to ensure Iran's current program remains exclusively peaceful."
"I can tell you that Secretary Kerry remains fully confident that the IAEA will manage their part of these requirements just as ably and efficiently as they do anywhere else in the world."
The IAEA usually conducts such monitoring inspections itself but the Parchin deal - named after the Parchin nuclear site - is a separate agreement between Iran and the IAEA and was not negotiated by the world powers that negotiated the nuclear deal.
The July 14 Vienna agreement gives Tehran some relief from economic sanctions in return for strict limits on a nuclear program that the West has suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.
Tehran has long denied seeking a nuclear weapon and has insisted on the right to nuclear technology for peaceful means. Obama has never ruled out military force if negotiations failed, and has said that he and future presidents would still have that option if Iran quit the agreement.
Under the nuclear deal, sanctions on Iran would be lifted in exchange for long-term curbs on its nuclear program.
Failure to comply with limitations on that program can lead to an automatic reimposition of all U.N. sanctions, the so-called U.N. sanctions snapback.
Congress has until Sept. 17 to approve or disapprove the nuclear deal. - Copyright Holder: STATE DEPARTMENT TV
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