“CTBT Has No Monitoring Activities, Equipment in Iran”

Iranโ€™s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has dismissed the claim that the US government has issued the permission to export surveillance equipment to intensify supervision over Tehranโ€™s nuclear program and the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal.

In a statement on Monday, Bahram Qassemi said the claims raised in Al-Monitorโ€™s recent report are distorted, and the information it has provided on Iran is untrue and false.

โ€œIran has signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), but has not ratified it,โ€ he said.

Therefore, said Qassemi, no site is up and running and no monitoring equipment is operating in Iran based on the CTBT.

โ€œNo information is being delivered to the treatyโ€™s secretariat, either, and the secretariat of the CTBT has no monitoring activities in Iran,โ€ he said.

Qassemiโ€™s remarks came in reaction to a recent report by Al-Monitor which claimed the Donald Trump administration is allowing high-tech US exports to Iran that could boost international oversight of the 2015 nuclear deal.

โ€œUS Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan signed a waiver that allows a Maryland-based company to export broadband networks, satellite dishes and wireless equipment to Iran for stations that monitor nuclear explosions in real time,โ€ the report added.

Al-Monitor says the monitoring equipment was requested by the CTBT, which oversees a global ban on nuclear test explosions.

It also claimed that the CTBT โ€œofficials have set up three sites in Iran to transmit explosion data back to Vienna, giving US and other policymakers a live, independent channel to watch the Islamic Republicโ€™s nuclear activity.โ€

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