Saudi Arabia Condemns Iran’s Violations of Nuclear Program

Fordow Iranian Plant
Fordow Iranian Plant

 Saudi Arabia affirmedthat the Iranian regime's expansionist ideology and interventions in the regioncame at the expense of its people. The regime used the revenue from the nuclearagreement to implement its expansionist ideology and interventions in theregion.

This came in a speech delivered by Prince Abdullah binKhalid bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Ambassador to Austria and the Governorof the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)during the discussion of the item (Verification and Monitoring in the IslamicRepublic of Iran in Light of the UN Security Council resolution. No. (2231) of2015) in the session of the Board of Governors of the International AtomicEnergy Agency held here during the period November 21-22, 2019.

 Prince Abdullah saidthat the reports issued by the IAEA regarding Iran's violations of the nuclearagreement in the level of uranium enrichment, the quantity produced from it,the installation of advanced centrifuges, the suspension of all its researchand development obligations, and its recent uranium enrichment at the Fordowfacility, is a threat to the international community.

He said that it confirms the inadequacy of the nuclearagreement with Iran and reinforces doubts about the intentions and peacefulnessof its nuclear program, stressing that Iran has used the economic return of thenuclear agreement in provoking internal unrest in neighboring countries, inlight of its insistence on the development of ballistic missiles, and support forterrorist groups in the region, including the threat to internationalnavigation and maritime straits, and destabilize the security and stability ofthe region in particular and the world in general instead of using that revenueto serve its internal development and improve the conditions of the Iranianpeople.

He added that these ongoing Iranian irregularities inrelation to its nuclear program, and with the recent disclosure of the presenceof nuclear material in an undisclosed location in Iran, and the failure of theIranian side to provide adequate information and consistent with the results ofanalysis of samples taken by the Agency from the site, justify Saudi call onthe international community to take all deterrent measures towards Iran inorder to ensure the maintenance of international peace and security, and tolimit Iran's actions and its aggressive behavior over the past 40 years in theregion and the world.

Prince Abdullah said that the Kingdom welcomed the contentsof the joint ministerial statement of the three European parties to theagreement and the High Representative of the European Union, welcoming thedecision of the United States of America to end the exemption of Iran's Fordownuclear facility from sanctions as of December 15, 2019, and the Kingdom'ssupport for the American step that is consistent with the Kingdom's position toensure the immediate return of sanctions in light of Iran's violations of itsnuclear program, with the Kingdom's call for not tolerating the apparent blackmailand defiance of the international community as a whole, calling on the IAEA tocontinue its monitoring efforts in Iran in order to uncover further informationrelated to its nuclear activities and any other sites Iran is likely to use inthis regard, while keeping the Council informed.

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