Iran to suspends additional Protocol to nuclear agreement

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said on Saturday that Tehran's work with the additional protocol to the nuclear agreement will stop next Tuesday.

Salehi added that the adherence to the additional protocol will terminate next Tuesday.

He went on to say that discussions with the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will then cooperate and inspect Iran`s nuclear facilities in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

On the other hand, Salehi pointed out that the leakage of classified information about Tehran's nuclear activities to the media is an "ineffective" behavior.

He continued to say that Western media reports on the effects of uranium in two sites aimed at achieving political purposes.

We have formally objected to the IAEA on the leakage of classified reports about our nuclear activities to the media.

"We call on the international agency to act impartially and professionally and not to leak classified reports."

Yesterday, Reuters news agency quoted diplomats as saying that IAEA had found traces of uranium at two Iranian sites that it inspected last year after months of procrastination.

The diplomats added that the agency intends to reproach Tehran for failing to explain why these relics were found at the two sites, which could complicate US efforts to revive nuclear diplomacy.

The substance was found during a surprise inspection by the agency in two locations in August and September after Iran had banned the inspection for seven months.

Four diplomats familiar with the agency have told Reuters that the substance discovered in those samples was uranium.

Two of the sources said the uranium discovered last year was not enriched.

The agency said it suspects that one of the sites was used to convert uranium, a step prior to enrichment, while the other was used to conduct bombing experiments.

Despite the belief that the two sites where traces of uranium were discovered have been inactive for nearly two decades.

Opponents of the nuclear agreement, including Israel, say that evidence of undeclared nuclear activities proves that Iran is not acting in good faith.