IAEA Responds to Upcoming Visit of Technical Delegation to Iran
Tehran – BORNA - Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, announced on Thursday that Iran has agreed to host an IAEA technical team in the next two to three weeks. However, he clarified that the team will not visit any nuclear facilities during their trip.
Foreign Minister Sayyed Abbas Araghchi had previously stated that following the recent Israeli-American hostile actions against Iran — which, according to Tehran, were facilitated by a report from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi — Iran’s cooperation with the agency would not continue as before.
In response to inquiries by The Wall Street Journal regarding the potential Tehran visit, an IAEA spokesperson declined to comment specifically on the matter. However, the spokesperson emphasized that Director General Grossi has reiterated “the need for a diplomatic solution based on the IAEA’s indispensable verification and monitoring activities.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, European foreign ministers reportedly told their Iranian counterpart last week that if Iran resumes talks with the U.S. and re-engages with the IAEA, they may delay triggering the JCPOA snapback mechanism.
Araghchi has previously said it was the United States that betrayed diplomacy by launching a direct attack on Iran in the midst of negotiations. He stressed that the U.S. must provide assurances that such attacks will not happen again if talks resume.
France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — the three European signatories to the JCPOA — have warned they will reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran by the end of August if meaningful progress is not made toward a new nuclear agreement.
Iran, in turn, has threatened to consider options such as withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in response to such Western moves.
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