Call for IAEA Impartiality in Face of Pressure

Iran’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Austria, has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to maintain its impartiality in the face of pressure by the United States about Iran’s nuclear activities.
“The agency shall remain independent, professional and impartial. We should all reject these pressures, which are detrimental to the interests of the whole international community,” Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on Twitter on Friday.
He referred to US Special Representative for Iran Elliott Abram’s recent call for keeping pressure on IAEA in coordination with Europe about Iran’s nuclear program. 
In an interview with the Jewish News Syndicate, Abrams had said that Washington needs “coordination with the Europeans, particularly the British, French and Germans, who were involved in the negotiation with Iran in 2015, to keep the pressure on the IAEA”.
Gharibabadi attached a statement by former IAEA director general, Yukiya Amano, at the 2019 New Year Reception, quoting him as saying that “if attempts are made to micro-manage or put pressure on the Agency in nuclear verification, that is counter-productive and extremely harmful”.
“Now it is obvious that to whom the Late DG Amano was referring on 30 Jan 2019,” the Iranian envoy wrote.  
Iran signed a deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with six world states in 2015, to show the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. The agreement was enshrined in a UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Washington, however, exited in 2018 and reimposed tough unilateral sanctions against Tehran which the European parties failed to offset. 
Iran in 2019 scaled down its commitments as per the terms of JCPOA until it can enjoy the deal’s economic benefits. 
It maintained its full cooperation with IAEA under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and informed the UN nuclear watchdog about each of its steps beyond JCPOA limits. 
Earlier this year, Iran agreed to allow the agency access to two sites that it had requested to inspect, despite arguing that the request was based on inadmissible evidence and thus illegitimate.
The IAEA, in return, assured that it will not raise further questions about Iran’s nuclear program and make further requests for access to locations other than those declared by Iran under CSA and its Additional Protocol.