TEHRAN – Being an adamant critique of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Mohammad Javad Larijani has proposed that Iran establish a new atomic organization, Tasnim news agency said on Tuesday.

Larijani, a former deputy foreign minister in the 1980s and director of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, also spoke of the need to restore the country’s peaceful nuclear capabilities, including projects, human resources, and facilities which he says have been badly damaged by the JCPOA.

This new body, according to Larijani, should be a comprehensive organization covering all research and technical activities related to nuclear energy similar to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission CEA.

Research projects conducted under the supervision of such organization should be in compliance with restraints set by the Non-Proliferation Treaty and only over limited time spans, Larijani stated.

“In doing so, more than 70 percent of the activities, not related to the JCPOA, associated with the organization can kick off immediately,”  said Larijani, a Ph.D. graduate from the University of California, Berkeley.

“Redesigning the Arak reactor based on heavy-water requirement and producing sufficient isotopes should be immediately resumed.”

Larijani viewed it necessary to redefine parts the new organization’s mission to go full speed ahead if the West fails to comply with the terms of the JCPOA terms. 

And finally, Larijani, who is currently the head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights (IHCH), said the new organization should follow “both non-confidential and confidential policies,” some of which will be considered national secrets.