Iran says the technical inspection of new surveillance cameras for the Karaj nuclear facility has begun after Tehran said previous cameras were damaged in an attack it blamed on Israel. The new cameras, provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), are to replace those Iran says were damaged on June 23 during an Israeli “sabotage” operation.
Tehran and the Vienna-based IAEA announced Wednesday that they had reached agreement on replacing the cameras at the TESA nuclear complex in Karaj, west of Tehran, a facility which makes centrifuges.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, listed the three conditions set by Tehran for the reinstallation. Iran demands “legal and security investigations into the sabotage,” the IAEA’s condemnation of the matter, and a “technical and security investigation of the cameras” before their installation, he said, speaking on state television. “The authorization given by Iran did not come in the form of a new agreement, but after the three prerequisites were met,” Kamalvandi added.
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