Iran's security council says agreement with IAEA corresponds to its approval

Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said on Sunday that the agreement signed between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) earlier this week on the resumption of bilateral cooperation has been compliant with its approval.

"The text of the arrangements (between Iran and the IAEA) has been reviewed by the SNSC's nuclear committee, and what has been signed corresponds entirely to what the committee had approved," the SNSC's secretariat said in a statement.

However, the statement stressed that should any hostile action be taken against Iran and its nuclear facilities, including the reinstatement of the terminated resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, the implementation of the arrangements would be stopped.

Following a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi signed an agreement on the resumption of bilateral interactions under the new circumstances in the aftermath of the Israeli-U.S. June attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Prompted by the Israeli-U.S. strikes, the Iranian parliament and Constitutional Council in late June passed a law to suspend the country's cooperation with the IAEA.

After the suspension, Iran said any inspections by the IAEA must be approved by the SNSC and that the suspension will persist until guarantees are provided for the safety of its nuclear sites and scientists.