The White House has announced that President Joe Biden has signed an extension of the "national emergency" status concerning Iran for another year, maintaining comprehensive sanctions against Tehran in response to its threats to US national security.
In his message to Congress regarding the continuation of the law initially enacted by former President Bill Clinton's administration on March 15, 1995, Biden stated that the actions and policies of the Iranian government continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.
This move comes shortly after a US threat to take future actions if Tehran persists in "obstructing" the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by refusing cooperation and not providing answers about activities at undeclared sites.
About a week following a meeting of the IAEA's Board of Governors, Tehran disclosed a letter sent to the UN-affiliated agency regarding its demand for explanations related to secret sites.
The letter stated, "Iran has repeatedly announced that it has no location that needs to be declared under the Safeguards Agreement."
It criticized the agency for relying on what it described as "accusations" and "unreliable information" originating from Israel.
The IAEA has been investigating activities not reported by Iran for five years, following Israel's publication in April 2018 of documents it claimed to have obtained after an operation in Tehran, which it referred to as the "Iranian nuclear archive.
Iran has attributed the "ambiguity" in the international investigation to accusations primarily from a malicious third party, namely the Israeli regime.
The closure of the investigation was among Iran's key conditions for accepting a draft proposal by the EU to conclude the nuclear negotiations, which reached an impasse in September 2022.
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