IAEA chief arrives in Iran for high-level talks, international nuclear conference
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi has arrived in Iran to attend an international nuclear conference and hold high-level talks with senior nuclear and political officials.
Grossi was welcomed by Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), upon his arrival in the capital Tehran on Monday.
Grossi is scheduled to meet with the Iranian officials and the AEOI chief, Mohammad Eslami, during his visit to Tehran and also to participate in the International Conference on Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (ICNST), which is underway in the central province of Isfahan.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ICNST’s opening ceremony, Eslami said the international conference was warmly received despite pressures from hegemonic powers to prevent the realization of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
“Well-experienced figures have participated in this summit despite acts of obstructionism, and good articles have been presented. Our goal is that these articles and achievements showcase the level of Iran's science and technology to the world,” Eslami said.
“We are ready to share these technologies with other countries to fight the dominance of arrogant countries so that [existing] barriers are broken and a different scientific order can emerge,” he added.
Iran and the IAEA are in a dispute triggered by the agency’s Israeli-influenced accusations against Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities, with the UN atomic agency insisting on investigating what it claims to be “uranium traces” found at “undeclared nuclear sites” in Iran.
The row turned into a sticking point in the talks aimed at reviving the 2018 US-abandoned nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
In 2019, Iran started to roll back the limits it had accepted under the landmark nuclear deal with world powers that had been signed in 2015. The decision came a year after the US withdrew from the agreement and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran.
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