Iran's nuclear issue caught between the Board of Governors and the Security Council مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

The reporting of the Board of Governors to the Security Council on March 8, 2006, is illegal for two reasons: first, this action lacks legal and technical documentation and has been initiated based on a political perspective that lacks legal validity; second, according to Note 3 of Article 21 of the Agency's Statute, the referral of a case to the Security Council takes place after proof of diversion in nuclear activities and the refusal of the country concerned to stop armament activities, whereas the Agency has explicitly confirmed the absence of signs of diversion in Iran's nuclear program. The long-standing hostility of the United States and Western countries toward Iran due to this country's foreign policy on one hand, and Iran's failure to provide timely notification of its activities to the Agency on the other hand, caused the Agency to become sensitive to Iran's nuclear program and proceed to the point where the Agency's Board of Governors, in the September 2005 resolution (IAEA/GOV/2005/76), considered Iran's nuclear activities to be in violation of Iran's obligations under the NPT treaty and requested that this country permanently suspend uranium enrichment. In all the resolutions of the past 4 years, especially the resolution of September 24, 2005, the Agency, by expressing concern over the P1 centrifuge program that Iran had not mentioned in its report to the Agency, and expressing regret over issues related to contamination, uranium enrichment activities, and Iran's failure to provide a complete declaration, accused this country of non-compliance with the provisions of the Safeguards Agreement, and not the provisions of the N.