The head of Iran’s atomic organization said that the UN nuclear agency’s surveillance cameras recording data beyond the Safeguards Agreement in Iran will remain deactivated until the other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal resume honoring their commitments.

Speaking to reporters at an exhibition in Tehran on Monday, the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said the raison d’être of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was the termination of accusations against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and building confidence.

Although Iran acceded to a series of limitations to its uranium enrichment activities under the JCPOA, the Western governments failed to honor their commitments, he deplored, as quoted by Tasnim news agency.

Eslami noted that Iran even agreed on intensified restrictions by allowing the IAEA to set up cameras in conformity with the JCPOA at its nuclear sites.

If the accusations against Iran are to remain in place after the JCPOA, there is no reason for Tehran to turn on the ultra-Safeguards Agreement cameras, the Iranian official underlined

Eslami reiterated that Iran has never been involved in any covert nuclear activity and has coordinated all of its plans for uranium enrichment with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Source: Iranian media