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August 24, 2020
The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, will stop in Tehran today, the first in Iran since taking office last December. During his talks there, Grossi will talk about Iran’s cooperation with the Vienna-based firm, and “specifically providing Iran for access to signature inspectors at the requested sites,” the IAEA said.
In June, the IAEA Governing Council followed a solution calling on Iran to cooperate fully with the IAEA in the implementation of its NPT Guarantee Agreement and its additional protocol, and to respond to IAEA requests.
“I have made the decision to make a personal scale in Tehran in order to reinforce the importance of cooperation and the full implementation of all commitments and obligations to the IAEA,” Grossi said yesterday at an IAEA.
My purpose is that my meetings in Tehran will lead to concrete progress in addressing the significant problems that the Agency has related to promises in Iran and, in particular, to the access factor. I also hope to create a fruitful and cooperative channel of direct discussion with the Iranian government that will be valuable now and in the future. “
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is transparent and cooperative with the IAEA, the Islamic Republic’s (IRNA) news firm reported today. Speaking to reporters in Tehran at the rite of opening a consular workplace at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Zarif said Grossi’s scale in Iran “has nothing to do with the cause mechanism,” referring to the US administration’s letter to UN security. Council (UNSC). last week, calling for the publication of the “recovery” mechanism of the Iran nuclear deal that was signed five years ago.
At another press conference, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Iran and the IAEA had experienced “ups and downs,” but that the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan “had led to cooperation at the highest level.” The IAEA’s to Iranian nuclear sites is “the largest in history” of the UN agency, Khatibzadeh said.
The United States had “required to factor a statement” among UNSC members, however, Khatibzadeh said it had “recorded a letter to the Secretariat” to its US counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “So Iran, the complainant and the United States, the defendant,” Khatibzadeh said, quoted by the statement.
Iran had been waiting for Grossi “since last fall,” but the coronavirus outbreak postponed it, he said, adding that “as long as the Agency acts impartially and independently, and far from the political tension of a third party, there will be no unrest.” between the IAEA and Tehran.”
Grossi will arrive in Tehran tonight and meet with President Hassan Rohani, Foreign Minister Zarif and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, on August 25 and 26, at IRNA.