Tehran: United Nations Atomic Sentinel chairman Rafael Grosy On Thursday, before a new round of nuclear dialogue between Tehran and Washington, Iran met the head of Iran’s nuclear power agency, Mohammad Eslami.
The Iranian and the American delegation are to gather for the second round of Omani-mediation talks in Rome on Saturday, a week later enemies held their highest level talks because US President Donald Trump abandoned a historic nuclear deal in 2018.
There was no immediate details on the Grosi meeting with Esmi, but Iran’s reformist Sharag newspaper described its journey as “strategically important at the current point”.
On Wednesday, Gersi met with External Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi, who led the first round of talks with US Special Envoy Steve Witcoff on Saturday.
Argchi said that he had a “useful” meeting with the head of the international nuclear power agency.
“IAEA can play an important role in peaceful disposal of the Iranian nuclear file in the coming months,” he said.
Argchi called the IAEA chief to “keep the agency away from politics” to seek “the current negotiations derailed” in front of the “Spiiler”. He was not detailed.
Groxy said that his meeting was “important”.
He said on X, “Cooperation with IAEA is indispensable to provide reliable assurance about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, when diplomacy is immediately needed,” he said on X.
Keeping a bomb is not ‘far away’
Before going to Iran, Groxy told the French newspaper Le Monde that Tehran was “not far” from placing a atomic bomb.
Western governments have long accused Iran of demanding to gain nuclear weapons capacity, an ambition Tehran continuously denied.
A year after Trump took out of the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran began to return its own commitments under the agreement, which relieved it from restrictions in exchange for IAEA-negotiation sanctions on its nuclear activities.
In its latest report, IAEA stated that the estimated 274.8 kg (605 pounds) in Iran had up to 60 percent of uranium.
This level is higher than the 3.67 percent enrichment roof set by the 2015 deal, but still lower than the 90 percent limit required for nuclear warheads.
Since he returned to the office in January, Trump revives his “maximum pressure” policy to punish Iran.
In March, he sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, urging Iran’s refusal to talk and warning of possible military action.
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that Trump had blocked an Israeli scheme to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities in favor of a negotiating deal.
‘Conflicting post’
On Tuesday, Khamenei warned that while the conversation with the United States started well, they could prove fruitless yet.
“Whether or not the talks can achieve results, they said.
On Wednesday, Argchi said Iran’s uranium was not promoted for discussion after Vitkofoffing.
Witcoff had earlier only demanded that Iran returned to the 3.67 percent enrichment sealing by the 2015 deal.
Araghchi said he expected to start negotiations on the structure of a possible agreement, but needed “creative positions” from the United States.
“If we listen to contradictory and conflicting positions (listen), we are going to have problems,” he warned.
On Thursday, Iran’s top diplomat turned to Moscow on a “pre-planned” visit to the Tehran colleague.
Kremlin said Russia was ready to “everything” in its power to help resolve the deadlock on Iran’s nuclear program.
