Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director Normal of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), on Monday traveled to Iran to fulfill with Iranian officers concerning the nation’s accelerating nuclear program amid tensions within the wider Center East over the Israel-Hamas war.
Grossi traveled to Tehran on Monday, the place he held high-level conferences with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of International Affairs of Iran. The content material of their discussions has not been disclosed to the media. Grossi is anticipated to journey to Isfahan in central Iran on Tuesday earlier than he ends his two-day go to and returns to Vienna, the place he’s anticipated to transient the media.
The IAEA is dealing with rising challenges in monitoring Iran’s quickly advancing nuclear program. With Iran now concerned within the battle between Israel and Palestine, the IAEA, along with the US and its European companions, has warned in opposition to the menace posed by Iran’s pursuit of its nuclear program. “Issues won’t disappear. They are going to solely worsen. So, we have to handle this in a severe approach,” Grossi said at an IAEA Board of Governors assembly held in April this yr. The latest tensions and focused attacks between Israel and Iran have endangered the town of Isfahan, the place Iran’s nuclear program is headquartered.
In 2015, Iran entered right into a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and the US. Beneath the JCPOA, Iran has pledged that its nuclear program is peaceable and that the Iranian authorities has no plans to develop nuclear weapons. The deal was endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015). Because the US’s withdrawal from the deal in 2018, tensions between Iran and the IAEA escalated as Iran deserted limits on its program imposed by the deal. In March 2023, the IAEA reported the invention of particles of uranium enriched to 83.7 % in Iran, whereas weapon-grade uranium is enriched to 90 %. In September 2023, Iran withdrew the designation of a number of IAEA inspectors conducting verification actions within the nation.
Not too long ago, Grossi told reporters that Iran was, “weeks relatively than months” away from having sufficient enriched uranium to develop a nuclear bomb.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi responded to Grossi’s assertion on April 27 by saying that “[t]his doesn’t imply that Iran possesses or will possess a nuclear weapon in that time period.” Reiterating that Iran would follow peaceable exploitation of nuclear applied sciences, he known as for the lifting of the sanctions imposed on Iran.
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