TEHRAN – Iran’s top nuclear official has rejected the draft resolution the U.S. and its European allies are presenting to the UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors.

Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said the proposed resolution is unsubstantiated. 

Speaking to reporters at the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday, Eslami said, “They [the U.S. and its European allies] drafted a resolution and leveled accusations that they know are unsubstantiated and rejected for the Islamic Republic’s point of view. What’s important is that Iran has a declared and enacted plan to advance its agenda in the nuclear sector and will continue its activity within that framework.”

The head of the AEOI also dismissed the trip of a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency to Iran. 

“For now, there is no IAEA trip on the agenda. The important issue is that the [Iranian] foreign ministry is following the issue of continuing negotiations and this is underway in various forms,” he said, according to IRNA, referring to the stalled negotiations over reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. 

He also said that the AEOI has responded to all the allegations leveled by the West and “if they were to continue negotiations, they would not present a resolution of such proportions.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that he had warned his European counterparts of pressing ahead with the resolution. 

Commenting on the resolution, Amir Abdollahian said, “We sent the necessary messages to the European sides. We spoke to some of the European foreign ministers, including Mr. Josep Borrell, the European Union foreign policy chief.”

The Iranian foreign minister added that he told the European officials that if they don’t stop “this unconstructive path,” they will face Iran’s reciprocal and effective response. 

The United States, Britain, France and Germany want the UN nuclear watchdog's board to pass a resolution calling it "essential and urgent" for Iran to explain alleged uranium traces found at three undeclared sites, according to a Reuters report. 

"(The Board of Governors) decides it is essential and urgent ... that Iran act to fulfil its legal obligations and ... take the following actions without delay," said the text, dated Friday and listing actions such as providing credible explanations for the traces.

Other actions listed included "provide all information, documentation, and answers the Agency requires" and "provide access to locations and material the Agency requires, as well as for the taking of samples as deemed appropriate by the Agency".

The draft text, which would need to be passed by a simple majority of board members, also said the board "expresses profound concern that the safeguards issues related to three undeclared locations remain outstanding due to insufficient substantive cooperation by Iran".

The resolution has been drafted amid soaring tensions between Iran and the West over a set of issues ranging from the Ukraine war to the recent unrest in Iran. The West has accused Iran of providing drones to Russia for use in Ukraine, a claim Iran roundly rejected. 

And the West also imposed sanctions against Iran for what it calls “crackdown protests” that erupted in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini. Iran has summoned several Western ambassadors in Tehran over meddling in Iran’s internal affairs. The latest case in this regard is the Australian ambassador.