Iran’s concessions to UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi during his visit to Tehran this weekend largely depend on future talks, Grossi admitted on Monday, backing down some comments he made upon his return to Iran .
Two days before a quarterly meeting of the 35-nation board of governors, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran said they agreed to make progress on several issues, including an investigation of the IAEA on uranium particles found in three undeclared locations in Iran.
Grossi told a press conference on Saturday that the two sides had agreed to reinstall all the extra monitoring equipment, such as surveillance cameras at nuclear facilities, that had been put in place under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with the major powers but removed last year. apart from after US withdrawal in 2018.
“We’ll have to discuss… this, how we’re going to do it,” Grossi said at a press conference on Monday, admitting that this and other issues will largely depend on future technical talks.
“We have our ideas and this will be part of the technical discussions that will take place after my visit and the joint release. And very soon a technical team will travel to Iran to do it,” he added.
The announcement of apparent progress in a joint communiqué on Saturday, which went into little detail, appears to have been enough to stave off Western pressure for another resolution, such as the one approved at the Council’s last quarterly meeting, ordering the Iran to cooperate in the investigation into trace uranium.
The Islamic Republic is generally angered by such resolutions and has responded in the past by ramping up nuclear activities that the 2015 deal was designed to curb.
Source: Terra
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