"Pursuant to the February 2014 Framework for Cooperation agreement between Tehran and the IAEA, the UN nuclear supervisory body should have ended the investigation into Iran’s exploding bridge-wire (EBW) experiments," Salehi told the Inter Press Service.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has so far refused to finalize the issues regarding the fast-functioning detonators, despite the fact that the EBW was the first issue that the two sides agreed to resolve under the agreement.
"We have agreed that once our explanations were enough to bring this to conclusion they would have to close that issue,” Salehi said, adding, “They should not keep the issue open."
A few days before Iran and the six world powers agreed on a breakthrough interim deal in Geneva in November, Tehran and the IAEA signed a 6-step agreement. A few months later on February 8, the AEOI and the IAEA released a 7-article MoU on continued cooperation in future.
The agreement contained Iran's voluntary cooperation untouched in the November Iran-IAEA agreement, known as the Tehran Declaration, in the form of the joint plan of action signed in late November between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany). The agreement included Tehran's voluntary cooperation in:
1-Providing (the IAEA) with administered access to Yazd’s Saghand Mine and the information agreed by the two sides,
2-Providing (the IAEA) with administered access to Ardakan enrichment facility the information agreed by the two sides,
3-Submitting updated design information questionnaire (DIQ) of Arak’s IR-40 reactor,
4-Adopting measures to materialize safeguard approach for Arak’s IR-40 reactor,
5-Arranging technical visit to Lashkarabad Laser Center and providing (the IAEA) with the information agreed by the two sides,
6-Providing source material, that has not reached the necessary composition and purity for making fuel or enrichment, including import of such material to Iran and extraction of uranium from phosphate by Iran,
7-Providing information and explanations to the IAEA to evaluate Iran’s statement on the need or application of Electron Bernstein waves (EBW) (new generation of safe fuses).
Two days later on February 10, AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi underlined that inspection of Iran's military sites was no part of the Tehran 7-Article agreement struck between the AEOI and the IAEA.
“Inspection of Parchin (military site) is not within the framework of these seven steps,” Kamalvandi told reporters in Tehran at the time.
