“From now on, Iran’s cooperation with the agency will follow this framework, and the agency is fully satisfied with the agreement,” the top diplomat said on Wednesday, speaking alongside his Tunisian counterpart Mohamed Ali Nafti during a joint press conference in Tunis on Wednesday.

Araghchi travelled to Tunis after signing the deal with the IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi in Cairo a day earlier to pave the way for resumption of cooperation between the two sides.

Tehran suspended the cooperation in protest at the UN nuclear watchdog’s most recent anti-Iranian resolution that was used by the Israeli regime and the United States to try to justify their illegal and unprovoked war on Iran in June.

Speaking alongside Grossi during a press conference that followed conclusion of the deal, Araghchi had noted how Iran’s cooperation towards realization of the deal conveyed the country’s good will, despite its having faced the aggression.

Adding to his remarks alongside the Tunisian official, the foreign minister, meanwhile, reminded that the illegal aggression had rendered it impossible for the body to continue its inspections as before.

“The agency acknowledged that the reality on the ground had changed and that a new framework for cooperation was needed. Therefore, we negotiated with the agency and were able to finalize this framework yesterday,” he said.

The official additionally questioned objections raised by some countries to the agreement, noting how the same states used to urge continued cooperation between the two sides.

The agency, Araghchi said, “is the only international authority for reviewing the nuclear status of countries.” “If it reaches an agreement with a country, it certainly takes into account its technical considerations,” he added.

“Therefore, objections from countries that have always claimed that Iran must cooperate with the agency are, from our perspective, strange.”

The official did not name any specific party, but the United States, the Israeli regime, and their key Western allies – the UK, France, and Germany – have been exerting considerable pressure on the agency aimed at forcing it to come up with anti-Iranian measures.

Israel seeking ‘full dominance’ over West Asia region

Elsewhere in his remarks, the official condemned the Israeli regime’s rampant deadly aggression throughout the West Asia region, including across the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and most recently Qatar.

“The threat posed by the Zionist regime is the greatest threat to peace and security in the region, and confronting it requires a collective decision within the region.”

If not properly contained, Tel Aviv would sustain its attempts at expanding its occupation across the region and keep trying to fragment it and its Muslim countries, Araghchi said.

As a case in point, he cited the regime’s underway push to “disintegrate” Syria after expanding the area under its occupation there to one that was now “larger than the entire Gaza Strip.”

The official said he would not put it past the regime to resort to any act of aggression to satisfy its goals.

“Israel seeks full dominance over the region, [establishment of] a ‘Greater Israel’, and weakening and fragmentation of all Muslim countries.”

Countering the threat

The foreign minister said the regional nations had to confront the regime primarily by severing their political and economic ties with it.

Muslim countries, he added, also had to sanction the regime and start applying political and economic pressure on the countries assisting it.