Iran says it has 'avoided panic', denies secret facility allegations

On May 24, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the country's parliament's 2020 passage of a law withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal to counter US sanctions had helped Iran avoid "confusion" on the nuclear issue.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Speaking at a meeting with members of Iran's parliament, Khamenei added: "This is a fundamental and important law, whose results have been shown even at the international level."

Iran signed a nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with world powers in July 2015, agreeing to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of Western sanctions.

However, in May 2018, the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, forcing Tehran to pass a law to abandon some commitments in the agreement to continue its nuclear energy development program.

Negotiations to resume the JCPOA started in Vienna (Austria) in April 2021, but so far remain deadlocked.

On the same day, regarding the information released by AP on May 22 that Iran is building a nuclear facility "apparently out of range of America's most modern weapons", located near the Zagros Mountains in the central part of the Islamic Republic, Tehran denied it.

Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami affirmed: "Iran is complying with the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency and safety commitments. Whenever we plan to carry out any activity, we will inform the Agency about the commitments and act accordingly."

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