Russia accepts no alternative for IAEA inspection mechanisms

The JCPOA stands for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official name of the agreement reached between Iran and six world major powers in 2015 to give Tehran sanctions relief in return for scaling back its nuclear program.

She made the remarks in response to a question on Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent claim about Iran’s nuclear program in a weekly news briefing on Friday.

Netanyahu recently claimed Israel has obtained 'Iran’s secret files' which reveal Tehran is still pursuing nuclear weapons program secretly even after the JCPOA came into effect.

The statements met with wide-scale global response, as many countries and international organizations rejected Netanyahu’s assertion.

Since efficiency of the inspections of IAEA as the sole authority to monitor nuclear activities have been proven fully, Russia rejects any speculations and deviations by media outlets, said the spokeswoman.

Russia believes that all the issues pertaining to IAEA’s verification in Iran should be undertaken within the context of the agency’s own mechanisms, she said,
noting that any issue directly related to implementation of JCPOA can be dealt with the 5+1 Group-Iran Joint Commission mentioned in JCPOA.

Zakharova reiterated that her country will keep up implementing commitments under the deal and until the time the other parties fulfill their sides in the deal and Resolution 2231, it will stick to the principled policy.

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