Iranian FM: IAEA Officials to Visit Tehran Soon

Date: 22 February 2023 - 21:58

News ID: ۱۱۲۷۱۴

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) --
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials will visit Tehran in the coming days, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday.
“In the framework of concluding negotiations, IAEA officials will travel to Tehran in the coming days,” the minister said during a press briefing with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad.
“We hope that IAEA Director Grossi will reach an agreement with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from a non-political and technical standpoint,” Amir-Abdollahian added.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency had earlier reported head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Muhammad Eslami as saying that IAEA inspectors had been in Tehran since Tuesday and had started negotiations, visits and checks to resolve “ambiguities created by an inspector”.
Last week, the UN nuclear agency said it was discussing the results of recent verification activities with Iran after Bloomberg News claimed that the agency had detected uranium enriched to 84% purity.
A spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran denied the report on Monday and said Tehran’s uranium enrichment did not exceed 60% purity.
“Through interactions and coordination, we are preventing the rise of new ambiguities and disruptions

to our cooperation with the agency,” Eslami was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Since the U.S. withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal in 2018, Iran has gradually started going beyond the pact’s nuclear curbs and enriching uranium to up to 60% purity in April 2021.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has never sought to acquire an atomic bomb,” Amir-Abdollahian added.