This file photo taken on Nov 10, 2019 shows an Iranian flag in Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, during an official ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor at the facility. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
TEHRAN / VIENNA – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced Wednesday that it has decided to turn off two surveillance cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said that over 80 percent of the existing cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency are operating under the Safeguards Agreement, which will remain in place and keep functioning as in the past
The AEOI said it has decided to, as of Wednesday, shut off the IAEA's surveillance cameras for the online enrichment monitor and the flow meter, according to state-run IRIB TV.
According to the statement, the AEOI's remedial measures are implemented in reaction to the IAEA's "illegal behaviors."
Iran has so far cooperated extensively with the IAEA, it added, "unfortunately the agency has not appreciated Tehran's collaborations, it has, instead, deemed the cooperation to be Iran's duty."
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"So far, the IAEA has not only been ungrateful for Iran's extensive cooperation but has also considered it as a duty. From today, relevant authorities have ordered that surveillance cameras of the Online Enrichment Monitor be shut down," Iranian state TV reported.
The AEOI added that over 80 percent of the IAEA's existing cameras are operating under the Safeguards Agreement, which will remain in place and keep functioning as in the past.
In an exclusive report on the same day, Iran's Nour News, affiliated with the country's Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran has placed on the agenda a number of remedial measures in reaction to the IAEA's "illegal behaviors" and "political reports".
The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticizing Iran for failing to explain uranium traces found at three undeclared sites, diplomats at a closed-door meeting said on Wednesday.
The board "expresses profound concern" the traces remain unexplained due to insufficient cooperation by Iran and calls on Iran to engage with the watchdog "without delay", according to the text.
Last Monday, the IAEA released two reports about Tehran's cooperation with the agency claiming that it estimated Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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The IAEA has also informed member states in a report seen by Reuters that Iran had started installing a cascade, or cluster, of advanced IR-6 centrifuges at its underground enrichment plant at Natanz, a longstanding plan it had not acted on for months.
Iran rejects the reports as politically motivated and failing to reflect the reality of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA.