As he squabbled over nuclear negotiations in Tehran weeks before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office, IAEC chief Rafael Grossi met Iran’s top diplomat on Thursday ( Nov 14 ).
Trump was the designer of a policy known as “maximum force,” which reimposed severe economic sanctions that had been lifted as a monument 2015 nuclear deal, during his first term in office, serving from 2017 to 2021.
” Rafael Grossi… who arrived in Tehran next day at the head of a committee to deal with the country’s best radioactive and political leaders, met with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi”, Iran’s standard IRNA news agency reported.
In their first conference since Grossi’s victory earlier this year, they are scheduled to meet afterwards.
He is also scheduled to meet the mind of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Eslami, before addressing a joint news event.
Grossi’s browse is his next to Tehran this year but his first since Trump’s re-election.
Trump unilaterally renounced the 2015 agreement that placed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for limits on its atomic program, a goal it has always denied.
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Iran began to gradually revert its commitments under the agreement, which forbid it from enriching uranium to levels greater than 3.65 % purity.
Iran’s stock of uranium-enriched uranium has significantly increased to 60 %, according to the IAEA, which raises concerns for the international community because it is much closer to the 90 % required for a nuclear weapon.
Given the significant differences between Tehran and Western capital, the IAEA’s head of operations” will do whatever he is to prevent the situation from going from bad to worse,” according to Ali Vaez, a practitioner in Iran at the Crisis Group, a think tank in the US.
Iran has laid the blame for the conflict with the approaching US leader.
” The one who left the partnership was not Iran, it was America”, government representative Fatemeh Mohajerani said on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump again encountered the maximum pressure maneuver, and it failed.
Israel Katz, the country’s defense minister, recently stated that Iran is “more exposed than ever to attacks on its nuclear features.
As tensions soared during the growing conflict between Israel’s friends Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the archfoes have engaged in extraordinary clear strikes in recent months.
Trump’s anticipated resumption of office in January has only heightened global concern about an Iran-Israeli full-scale issue.
In an appointment with AFP on Tuesday, Grossi warned that “it is important to find ways to achieve political solutions.”” The margins are beginning to shrink,” he added.