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Iran has finally agreed to fully suspend uranium enrichment activities, diplomats said on Sunday, in an attempt to ease the mounting international pressure against the Islamic state for its nuclear program, and to dispel suspicions that it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
This move is dealing a major blow to the U.S. efforts to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
By sending a written promise to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency — the International Atomic Energy Agency — Iran dropped demands for modification of a tentative deal that was reached in Nov. 7 with European negotiators, agreeing instead to continue a freeze on enrichment and to suspend related activities, diplomats told reporters.
"Basically it's a full suspension," a diplomats who demanded anonymity said. "It's what the Europeans were looking for."
The U.S. has repetitively accused Iran that its uranium enrichment activities were part of a nuclear arms program.
But Iran has denied those allegations more than once, insisting that its nuclear program was only used for peaceful purposes, mainly power generation.
A diplomat close to the IAEA said that the delay in Iran’s response was done on purpose to give a chance to both sides to resolve the dispute.
The IAEA survey on nearly two decades of clandestine activities that the United States claim are parts of a program to produce nuclear weapons, is being prepared for review by the agency's board of governors on their meeting on Nov. 25.
This report will decide on actions that include possible referral of Iran to the U.N. Security Council, which, in turn, end in imposing sanctions.
Last year, Iran suspended uranium enrichment but has repeatedly refused to stop other related activities such as reprocessing uranium or building centrifuges, saying that it’s the country’s right to peacefully enrich uranium for nuclear power generation.
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