The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, said that Tehran is attached to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNP), rejecting speculations that Iran would leave the agreement in response to the main attacks of Israel and the United States on its nuclear and others.
Araghchi also said on Thursday that Iran would honor its guarantee agreement with the United Nations Watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), despite the recently transmission of a law to suspend cooperation with the agency.
The guarantees agreements between the signatories of the IAEA and the TNP allow the United Nations agency to ensure that the nuclear programs of the countries remain peaceful.
“Iran remains attached to the TNP and its agreement of guarantees,” wrote Araghchi in an article on social networks.
“In accordance with the new Majlis legislation (Parliament), triggered by the illegal attacks against our nuclear installations by Israel and the United States, our cooperation with (AIEA) will be channeled through the Supreme National Iranian Security Council for obvious security and security reasons.”
It is not clear how this cooperation will take place or when and how IEA inspectors will be granted to access to Iranian nuclear sites.
Araghchi’s commentary was made in response to a German declaration from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced Iranian legislation against IAEA as a “devastating message”.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs struck the criticism of Germany – one of the most committed allies of Israel who supported the attacks on Iran last month.
At the height of the strikes of Israel, which were launched without direct provocation, Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggested that Germany and the West benefit from the war.
“It’s a dirty job that Israel made for all of us,” he said. The remarks earned him praise from Israeli officials and caused indignation in certain other quarters.
Araghchi reprimanded “the explicit support of Germany on Thursday in the illegal attack of Israel against Iran, including saved nuclear sites, while” Dirty Work “carried out on behalf of the West”.
He also accused Berlin to repudiate his commitments under the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement with Tehran by demanding zero enrichment by Iran.
The Pact – that US President Donald Trump torpedoed in his first mandate in 2018 – allows Iran to enrich uranium with a low content in strict surveillance regime.
“The Iranians have already been rejected by the support of the Nazi style in Germany in Gaza, and its support for the war of Saddam against Iran by providing materials for chemical weapons,” said Araghchi in an article on X.
“German support explicit to the bombing of Iran has erased the idea that the German regime houses something other than maliciousness towards Iranians.”
The companies of former Western Germany have long been accused by Iran of having helped the late Iraqi chief Saddam Hussein to develop chemical weapons, which he used against Iranian forces during the war between the two countries in the 1980s.
Iran has called on Germany to investigate its links with Iraq’s chemical weapons, but Berlin has not recognized any role in the program.
Germany and other European countries came out in favor of Israel during its recent 12 -day war with Iran, which killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, including nuclear scientists and family members, as well as senior military officials.
The United States joined the Israeli campaign last month, bombing three Iranian nuclear installations. Iran retaliated against the American attack with a missile strike against an air base in Qatar where the American soldiers are stationed. A few hours later, a ceasefire was reached.
Iranian officials strongly criticized the IAEA not only for not condemned Israeli and American strikes, but also for having adopted a resolution on June 12, accusing Tehran of non-compliance with its nuclear obligations, the day before the attack in Israel.
International law provides special protection to nuclear sites due to the high risk of an environmental disaster if attacks lead to the flight of radioactive materials.
The state of the Iranian nuclear program after American and Israeli strikes remains uncertain.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon said that the American bombing operation covered the Iranian nuclear program for one to two years.
But the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, recently said that Iran could still enrich uranium in “month of month”. Enrichment is the process of improving the purity of radioactive uranium atoms to produce nuclear fuel.
Iran has repeatedly denied the search for a nuclear weapon while Israel is largely suspected of having an unsuccessful nuclear arsenal of dozens of atomic bombs.