IAEA
France, Britain, Germany and the U.S. are seeking board approval for a measure requiring Tehran to address concerns over bombed nuclear sites.
“The Agency’s lack of access to this nuclear material in Iran for five months means that its verification ... is long overdue.”
“The U.S. president tried to give hope and boost the morale of the disappointed Zionists in Occupied Palestine. … This is my analysis of the U.S. president’s trip,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
Nine council members voted against an effort by China and Russia to delay snapback sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its nuclear-weapons program.
Agency Director Rafael Grossi called it “an important step in the right direction” after months of suspension following the Israel-Iran war and legislation halting collaboration.
An IAEA spokesman confirmed that Rafael Grossi had been placed under the protection of Austria’s Cobra special forces unit.
A delegation from Tehran met with German, British and French diplomats, in Istanbul, for the first time since the 12-day war with Israel.
The IAEA emphasized the importance of “discussing with Iran modalities for resuming its indispensable monitoring and verification activities.”
The international community should “utilize all means at its disposal” to confront the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.
Diplomats from the seven countries and the European Union stated that Tehran shouldn’t restart “its unjustified enrichment activities.”
“The capacities they have are there ..., a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,” Rafael Grossi said.
Iran’s foreign minister said the damage to the country’s nuclear sites by Israeli and American strikes was “serious.”
