Iranian authorities today summoned diplomats from France, Great Britain and Germany to protest their "provocative behavior" at a UN Security Council meeting on Iran's nuclear program.
The UN Security Council met on Wednesday at the request of several members (the US, UK, France, Greece, Panama and South Korea), following the publication of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which indicates that Iran has increased its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium "in a very worrying manner".
The production of nuclear weapons requires uranium enriched to at least 90 percent.
The US called at the meeting for the Security Council to be "united" in clearly condemning Iran's "shameless" behavior regarding its nuclear program.
In Tehran, diplomats from three European countries were "summoned to the Ministry (of Foreign Affairs) to protest their complicity with the US in using the Security Council mechanism and holding a closed-door meeting on Iran's peaceful nuclear program," the Iranian diplomacy said.
Western countries have suspected for decades that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, which Tehran firmly denies and defends its right to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
The UN Security Council meeting "has no technical or legal justification and is considered a provocative and political move, in line with the unilateral approaches of the US," the statement said.
China is scheduled to host trilateral talks in Beijing tomorrow with representatives of Russia and Iran on the Iranian nuclear issue.
These three countries, along with the US, France, the UK and Germany, are signatories to the 2015 international agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
US President Donald Trump, who withdrew the US from the deal during his first term in 2018, recently expressed his willingness to engage in dialogue with Tehran on the nuclear deal. Trump sent a letter to Iranian authorities, which said on Wednesday it had received it.
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