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

On May 24, Iran's supreme spiritual 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" over 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 the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with world powers in July 2015, accepting controls on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of Western sanctions.

However, in May 2018, the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed 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 the most modern US 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 notify the Agency of our commitments and act accordingly."

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