Interview with Farhikhtegan Newspaper, September 2025 -
The interview was in Persian and the translation below was done by Ai.
International affairs expert Sasan Karimi believes that the start of cooperation with the Agency will take the excuse from Europe and since Iran does not intend to carry out threatening nuclear activities, this cooperation in itself will be positive. You can read the details of this interview below.
The agreement with the Agency is in Iran's interest
In general, this agreement is in Iran's interest, it is the culmination of Israel's desire to isolate us as much as possible and present us as a potential and actual threat. Therefore, removing the excuse from the Agency, the Europeans, the Americans and most importantly the Zionist regime is in itself a positive thing. Of course, with the observances that the Shoam will make; naturally, there will be no threat and basically, working with the international organization as a whole is a priority and there is no threat.
The Agency's general protocol for inspection and the safeguards that it has signed with us do not provide for inspection of bombed facilities. So the first technical problem that existed and has been going back and forth between the State Department and the Agency during this time is what protocol is going to be used to inspect bombed areas? Well, this requires arrangements, so for that reason the inspections are separated and technically it cannot do the same thing for normal industry as it does for bombed industry. Naturally, we have no problem giving access to bombed sites and we have no secret from the Agency or the United Nations that we want to do covert work and it is also not profitable for us to give them an excuse for using it without having covert work, security work in the nuclear field, based on a fabricated concern. So because we have not done anything illegal and we never want to do anything and violate the NPT and move towards weapons or illegal activities, none of these inspections will cause us any problems. The problem is when you want to do something illegal; we do not intend to do this, so access should be restricted more for the sake of nuclear safety than for nuclear security. If there were a security issue with any of the IAEA inspectors, it would be dealt with; but there is no need to be pessimistic about this in itself and we should do the job normally so that excuses are eliminated.
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