International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi will meet with Iranian officials in Tehran on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed today, more than two months after Iran promised to host him.
Behrouz Kamalvadi, a spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, told state media on Wednesday that Grossi would meet with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian and nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami. The IAEA did not say in its announcement who Grossi would meet with.
“We can confirm that General Director Rafael Mariano Grossi will meet with senior Iranian government officials in Tehran on Tuesday, November 23,” the IAEA said in a statement.
The visit comes on the eve of a quarterly meeting of the UN Security Council and ahead of indirect talks between Iran and the United States on November 29 to salvage its nuclear deal.
Two of its reports to its member states on Wednesday highlighted a series of confrontations between the UN agency and the Islamic Republic, beginning with Tehran’s continued failure to explain the origin of uranium particles found in seemingly old but undisclosed locations, and reaching as far as its refusal to allow the IAEA to re-install surveillance cameras in a laboratory hit by apparent sabotage in June.
One of the reports also stated that Iranian security officials continued to impose on IAEA inspectors “excessive intrusive investigations, which resulted in intimidation.”
Grossi told a news conference on November 12 that in addition to technical talks with Eslami, this would be a first opportunity to have a “serious discussion” with the government of hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in August. He added that it was “surprising” that this took so long.
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