TEHRAN —
The head of
Iran’s atomic energy agency said Saturday he will meet next week
with the chief of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, as attempts to revive the
country’s nuclear deal stall.
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“I will go to
Austria to take part in the annual general conference of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, where I will meet with Director General
Rafael Grossi,” Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Eslami told state
television.
The Vienna-based
IAEA’s annual conference takes place this year from September 26–30.
The UN watchdog
said early this month it was “not in a position to provide assurance that
Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful”.
It has been
pressing for answers on the presence of nuclear material at three undeclared
sites and the issue led to a resolution that criticized Iran being passed at a
June meeting of the IAEA’s board of governors.
The three sites
represent a key sticking point in negotiations to restore a tattered 2015
nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
Those negotiations
began in Vienna in April 2021 but have repeatedly stalled.
Iran has
repeatedly said it wants the IAEA to drop its interest in the three sites — a
position that the nuclear watchdog says lacks credibility.
“I hope that my talks will
put an end ... to the false accusations about certain (nuclear) sites stemming
from political pressure and psychological operations exerted against Iran,”
Eslami added.
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