TEHRAN -- Iran has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to reflect the realities concerning the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear energy program and prevent political exploitation of its coverage of the country’s nuclear activities.
The telephone conversation between IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi featured among other things the agency’s newly published report on the Islamic Republic.
Araghchi reaffirmed Iran’s continued cooperation with the IAEA, noting that all of its nuclear activities were under the agency’s supervision and conducted in line with the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. 
The agreement allows the IAEA to verify that all nuclear materials in a country are used only for peaceful purposes, and are not diverted towards production of nuclear weapons.
Araghchi, meanwhile, emphasized that there has been no deviation concerning either nuclear materials or activities at any stage of the nation’s nuclear program.
Araghchi urged Grossi to ensure the agency’s reports accurately reflected these facts to prevent certain actors from using the IAEA as a political tool against the Islamic Republic.
He also called on the agency’s director general to underscore Iran’s cooperation with the United Nations nuclear agency at the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors’ meeting and to caution against politically-driven actions against the country, particularly by European states.
Araghchi warned that Iran would respond appropriately to any unjustified move and that responsibility for such outcomes would rest with those politicizing the agency’s mission. 
The remarks concerned efforts by the UK, France, and Germany -- the United States allies in a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran -- to return the UN’s sanctions against the Islamic
 Republic by resorting to the so-called “snapback” mechanism.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs on Sunday rejected the IAEA report as politically motivated, warning of appropriate response if certain states “abuse its patience.”
Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks after the IAEA claimed in a confidential report to member states that Iran has failed to report its nuclear activities at three undeclared locations and raised concerns about the country’s stockpile of uranium enriched up to 60% purity.
He said the report is based on “a series of fabricated data provided by the Zionist regime” dating back to more than two decades ago.
All accusations about Iran’s past nuclear activities were terminated under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which formally endorsed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he added.
Gharibabadi also noted that the report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog is once again raising old “unsubstantiated issues” intended for “new political exploitation against Iran.”
“Iran is neither pursuing nuclear weapons nor does it possess any undeclared nuclear materials or activities. Iran has hitherto remained committed to all of its obligations. The cost that Iran has borne has been for the sake of preserving its dignity, honor, progress, and steadfastness in the face of coercion and the hegemonic ambitions of certain powers,” he said.
“Should these states choose to abuse Iran’s patience and persist in their erroneous path, Iran will be compelled—commensurate with the evolving circumstances and actions of the other parties—to adopt and implement appropriate decisions, the responsibility, consequences, and ramifications of which shall rest entirely with those states.”
The deputy foreign minister further emphasized that the IAEA - under political pressure from certain states- has turned into a tool of pressure against the Islamic Republic.
Expressing concerns about Iran’s nuclear materials and activities is a mere pretext to fabricate a contrived sense of alarm, particularly in a region where the nuke-armed Zionist regime remains outside all instruments of weapons of mass destruction disarmament treaties, he pointed out.
“So long as a country’s nuclear activities are under the IAEA’s monitoring, there is no cause for concern.”