Grossi had stressed in a press statement before his visit to Tehran, the necessity of finding ways to resolve the situation diplomatically regarding the Iranian nuclear program, noting that “the Iranian authorities must be aware that the international situation has become increasingly tense and that the room for maneuver has begun to shrink, and it is necessary to find ways for a diplomatic solution.” “.
Grossi said in a statement to Reuters on Tuesday: “I am far from being able to tell the international community what is happening. I am in a very difficult situation, so it is more like they (Iran) have to help us to help them to some extent.”
According to the agency, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency has been seeking for months to “achieve progress with Iran on issues including pushing for more cooperation in the field of monitoring at nuclear sites and interpreting traces of uranium found in undeclared sites.”
Grossi’s trip comes a week before the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors meets in Vienna with the European parties to the 2015 agreement, Britain, Germany and France, “to consider whether pressure on Iran should be increased given its lack of cooperation.”
Iran has intensified its nuclear activity since 2019, after US President-elect Trump, during his first term, abandoned the 2015 agreement that Iran reached with world powers, under which Tehran imposed restrictions on enrichment.
Trump reimposed strict US sanctions on Tehran. The West views Iran’s enrichment work as a covert effort to develop the ability to make nuclear weapons, according to what Reuters reported.
Tehran is now enriching uranium to a fissile purity of up to 60 percent, which is close to the 90 percent required to make a nuclear bomb, but Iran has long denied any ambitions to make a nuclear bomb, saying that it “enriches uranium for civilian energy uses only.”
Source: “IRNA” + “Reuters”
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