IAEA meets for historic Iran vote

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors has convened in the Austrian capital of Vienna to vote on a draft resolution forwarded to it by the P5+1 group of countries on Iran’s nuclear program.

The Tuesday meeting is to be followed by a press conference in which the nuclear agency's Director General Yukiya Amano will announce the session’s outcome.

Iran and the P5+1 – the United States, Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany – concluded a nuclear agreement dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna on July 14. Under the JCPOA, limits are put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all nuclear-related economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.

The agreement has obliged putting an end to the past and present outstanding issues pertaining to Iran’s nuclear program. As per Article 14 of the JCPOA, the P5+1 has submitted the draft resolution to the Board of Governors for approval, which would seal the case.

During its Tuesday session, the Board of Governors discusses Amano’s final assessment about the outstanding issues before making a final decision on the case.



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Personally I think Iran has become adapt at using stonewalling and avoidance efforts to ensure a rather weak response from P5+1.

Because there is so much other complication in the greater Middle East region it is as if P5+1 is letting Iran get away with having a development program and get out of international sanctions. This vote will allow that to be one step closer.

Iran isn't the problem in the ME.