00:00We all know that this needs to be solved in one way or the other.
00:06We need to get access again.
00:08And I don't think even Iran would deny this.
00:15The problem is that they are not doing it, they are putting conditions, they are coming
00:19up with certain positions which are for us not accurate, but it is absolutely necessary.
00:28Why?
00:30Because after the 12-day war, and with all the consequences that came with it, one was of
00:37course the loss of access for our inspectors in some places, in particular the most sensitive
00:42places, Isfahan, Fordow, Natanz, the places that were hit during this military campaign.
00:52And this coincides obviously with the most sensitive equipment and facilities that Iran
00:58used to have, and importantly the nuclear material, which is still there.
01:03By nuclear material I mean uranium enriched at 60%, which is very, very close to military
01:13level use.
01:14So, this is still there.
01:16We need to ascertain, confirm where it is that it has not been diverted, and we haven't been
01:24able to do that.
01:26Communications have not broken down completely.
01:29And I should say, we are in constant conversation, contact with Iran, in particular myself with
01:36the foreign minister and others.
01:39So we are trying to reconstruct that work, that activity.
01:43Not for the sake of a bureaucratic need that we need to check the box and go back and inspect
01:49it, because one of the reasons that what happened happened, and I'm not passing judgment
01:54on that, but it happened, was because the sense in some places that this was leading to
02:00a military development.
02:02And this has not entirely disappeared.
02:04So, medium to long term, we need to arrive to a framework, diplomatic framework, political
02:13framework, that will provide the stability which is lacking now.
02:17Two questions from that.
02:19So you want your inspectors in there and to be given a free hand, as much as that's possible.
02:24And that is, I say it respectfully, is an obligation of Iran.
02:29I mean, for as long as they want to remain as a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
02:37of Nuclear Weapons.
02:38If they decide otherwise, it's another story.
02:40But you cannot be in a regime, you cannot say that you are a law-abiding citizen and not
02:45pay your taxes.
02:46Let me put it that way.
02:48They have to comply with this.
02:50So, we can reconstruct this relationship on a normal footing.
02:55The greatest nuclear safety risks now, in 2026, after an unusual, extraordinary year
03:03in 2025, but we're seemingly in an even different field again this year.
03:10So, what's the greatest threat in terms of nuclear power, do you think?
03:15Well, it depends on how things evolve.
03:19Obviously, there is one very urgent issue around what is happening between Russia and Ukraine
03:28in the course of the war.
03:30And because of the fact that this Apolysian nuclear power plant is there at the front line,
03:35fourth year of the war, and ever so fragile as in the beginning, we have just now successfully,
03:45I would say, negotiated yet another partial ceasefire between the two sides, so that some essential repair,
03:54so one of the lines that is feeding the plant could be repaired.
03:58It's the fourth ceasefire we have negotiated.
04:00And that says a lot about two things.
04:03About the fragility of the situation there, where there is military activity, ongoing military activity,
04:13putting the safety of the plant at risk, and secondly, for us, the importance of our work there,
04:19and the need for us to be present there, to talk to both, to try to calm things down at certain moments
04:26where there is a very fragile situation.
04:29.
04:36.
04:40.
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