Iran says IAEA talks will be ‘complicated’ ahead of agency’s planned visit

The IAEA is yet to marque a connection astir the meeting, which volition not see a sojourn to Iranian atomic sites.

Iran’s talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) volition beryllium “technical” and “complicated”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said, up of a sojourn by the United Nations atomic watchdog for the archetypal clip since Tehran chopped ties with it past period successful the aftermath of the June struggle triggered by Israeli strikes.

Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, told reporters connected Monday that a gathering whitethorn beryllium organised with Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi during the IAEA’s visit, “but it is simply a spot soon to foretell what the talks volition effect since these are method talks, analyzable talks”.

The IAEA’s sojourn marks the archetypal to Iran since President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the state connected July 3 to suspend its practice with the atomic watchdog after an intensive 12-day war with Israel. The struggle besides saw the United States motorboat monolithic strikes connected Israel’s behalf against cardinal Iranian atomic sites.

Pezeshkian told Al Jazeera successful an interrogation past period that his state is prepared for immoderate aboriginal warfare Israel mightiness wage against it, adding that helium was not optimistic astir the ceasefire betwixt the countries. He confirmed that Tehran is committed to continuing its atomic programme for peaceful purposes.

He added that Israel’s strikes, which assassinated starring subject figures and atomic scientists, damaged atomic facilities and killed hundreds of civilians, had sought to “eliminate” Iran’s hierarchy, but “completely failed to bash so”.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told Iran’s state-run IRNA quality bureau connected Monday that Massimo Aparo, the IAEA’s lawman manager wide and caput of safeguards, had near Iran. Aparo met with an Iranian delegation, which included officials from the Foreign Ministry and the IAEA, to sermon “the method of enactment betwixt the bureau and Iran”.

Gharibabadi said they decided to proceed consultations successful the future, without providing further details.

The IAEA did not instantly contented a connection astir Aparo’s visit, which volition not see immoderate planned entree to Iranian atomic sites.

Relations betwixt the IAEA and Iran deteriorated aft the watchdog’s committee said connected June 12 that Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations, a time earlier Israel’s aerial strikes implicit Iran, which sparked the conflict.

Baghaei, meanwhile, criticised the IAEA’s deficiency of effect to the Israeli strikes.

“Peaceful facilities of a state that was nether 24-hour monitoring were the people of strikes, and the bureau refrained from showing a omniscient and rational absorption and did not condemn it arsenic it was required,” helium said.

Araghchi had antecedently said that practice with the agency, which volition present necessitate support by Iran’s highest information body, the Supreme National Security Council, would beryllium astir redefining however some sides cooperate. The determination volition apt further bounds inspectors’ quality to way Tehran’s programme that had been enriching uranium to adjacent weapons-grade levels.

Iran has had constricted IAEA inspections successful the past, successful negotiations with the West, and it is unclear however soon talks betwixt Tehran and Washington for a woody implicit its atomic programme volition resume, if astatine all.

US quality agencies and the IAEA assessed that Iran past had an organised atomic weapons programme successful 2003. Although Tehran had been enriching uranium up to 60 percent, this is inactive immoderate mode from the weapons-grade levels of 90 percent.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies