Commenting on reports on the halt of Iran’s program to produce plutonium, Araqchi told reporters in Geneva, “We have had no plan to produce plutonium.”
Commenting on claims about production of plutonium in Arak facilities, he said, “The facility has not been operational yet to produce plutonium.”
He stressed that Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) had previously announced that the coming into operation of the Arak reactor has been suspended.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) reached a final agreement, including recognition of Tehran’s right of uranium enrichment and removal and easing of sanctions.
Iran and the Group signed four-page agreement after five days of difficult and intensive negotiations and more than decade-long nuclear standoff between and the West.
One page of the four-page deal signed in Geneva deals with easing and removal of the US-led western sanctions imposed against Iran.
First of all, no further sanctions will be imposed against Iran.
Oil embargos on the country will be halted and the level of Iran’s crude sale will be maintained at the current level and Iran’s oil revenues will also be released.
Sanctions on Iran’s petrochemical sector will completely removed and the sanction on the country’s auto industry will also be lifted.
The gold and precious stones metals will be removed and sanctions on the country’s insurance and transportation sectors and related to the oil industry will be fully lifted.
Iran’s right to enrichment has been recognized both in practice and in words in two places of the document.
According to the agreement, Iran’s nuclear program structure will be fully preserved and there will no step backward and the uranium enrichment will continue.
Fordo and Natanz (nuclear sites) will also continue to their work.
According to the agreement, Iran will reciprocate a series of confidence-building measures.
Iran as a confidence-building measure will not further expand its activities in Arak, Natanz and Fordo in the next six months, but (uranium) enrichment below five percent and production of the relevant enriched material in Fordo and Natanz will continue as before.
Iran will also continue its research and development in its nuclear program.
According to the agreement, the 20 percent enrichment will not continue in the next six month due to lack of need to the same. All the enriched uranium will remain inside Iran and no material will be taken out from the country.
