Grossi’s Claim: First IAEA Inspection Team Returns to Iran

According to Rokna, quoting Al Jazeera, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an interview with Fox News, claimed that the first team of IAEA inspectors returned to Iran after negotiations with Tehran.

Lawrence Norman, a journalist with the American daily Wall Street Journal, had earlier asserted in a post on the social media platform X that at a conference in the United States, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, announced that talks with Iran are still ongoing and that the Agency’s inspectors, contrary to some previous statements, are set to return to Iran.

The journalist of this American media outlet continued: It is still unclear whether these remarks signify a formal agreement between Iran and the Agency for the inspectors’ return, or merely reflect the Director General’s prediction in this regard.

Reza Najafi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the IAEA, stated that following the recent negotiations held by the Deputy Director General of the Agency in Tehran, the Iranian delegation met on Friday with the IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards in Vienna.

In this meeting, both sides, while continuing the discussions held in Tehran, exchanged views on how Iran would engage with the International Atomic Energy Agency, considering the new circumstances resulting from the unlawful attacks by the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, and within the framework of the new law ratified by the Parliament.

Najafi emphasized that the two sides made progress in this round of talks and agreed that negotiations would continue for drafting a procedural guideline for interactions within the framework of the parliamentary law.