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STORY: IAEA / GROSSI IRAN
TRT: 02:35
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 DECEMBER 2021, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"This are the cameras.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"The type of cameras that the IAEA has all over the world.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"If you open, it immediately shows it has been opened, has been tampered with. So, these cameras cannot be violated by anybody.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"We said, ok, the information can stay in Iran but it’s still under our seals. It’s mine – I can put it like that – but I can’t see it. And at some point, ideally, when the JCPOA agreement is restored, then...”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"The first thing you do is to put the cameras back. First thing. And this we are going to do. And it’s very important. The second problem, or the second issue, is this gap. This delta you have from the moment the cameras were stopped, until now. And for that as I have also have indicated, we have ways to try to reconcile the facts on the ground with what Iran is going to be telling us.”
7 SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"The cameras had been destroyed and needed to be replaced. It was not a matter of replacing the memory or changing the battery. Servicing, in the jargon. It was a matter of coming there, doing some work, putting up new cameras, preparing them, etc, etc. We had a problem there.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
"This is why we are asking them, where is it? So, I am hopeful they are going to come up with an answer. It’s very strange that it disappeared.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“It is absurd to believe or to say that the IAEA’s cameras will be part of some sort of sabotage. That is number one. Number two, these cameras do not have any transmitters, any beacon, that can be used in the way that it was alleged. So, you know, I try to restrain myself because that irritates me enormously. The idea that somebody can be saying that the IAEA can be part of something like this.”
10. Zoom out, end of press conference
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi said it was “very strange” that that data storage from an IAEA surveillance camera destroyed during an incident in June at an Iranian centrifuge-parts workshop at Karaj, had disappeared.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) an Iran on Wednesday (15 Mar) agreed to replace the damaged cameras at Karaj, as well as to install additional cameras at other sites.
Grossi, speaking to reporters in Vienna, displayed a camera like the ones used in Iran, and explained how they function.
He said, “if you open, it immediately shows it has been opened, has been tampered with. So, these cameras cannot be violated by anybody.”
Grossi explained that until the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, is restored the information in the cameras is “can stay in Iran but it’s still under our seals.”
He said, “it’s mine – I can put it like that – but I can’t see it.”
The IAEA Director-General said that under the agreement, “the first thing you do is to put the cameras back. First thing. And this we are going to do. And it’s very important.”
There is still no agreement on how to deal with the gap of information from “the moment the cameras were stopped, until now,” he said, but pointed out that “we have ways to try to reconcile the facts on the ground with what Iran is going to be telling us.”
Grossi said, “the cameras had been destroyed and needed to be replaced. It was not a matter of replacing the memory or changing the battery. Servicing, in the jargon. It was a matter of coming there, doing some work, putting up new cameras, preparing them, etc, etc. We had a problem there.”
He said, "this is why we are asking them, where is it? So, I am hopeful they are going to come up with an answer. It’s very strange that it disappeared.”
Asked about allegations that the IAEA cameras were rigged, the official said, “it is absurd to believe or to say that the IAEA’s cameras will be part of some sort of sabotage. That is number one. Number two, these cameras do not have any transmitters, any beacon, that can be used in the way that it was alleged. So, you know, I try to restrain myself because that irritates me enormously. The idea that somebody can be saying that the IAEA can be part of something like this.”
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