UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Cites 'Great Expectation' In Talks with Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "The second set of issues, which is very important, has to do with (the) scientific, technical cooperation we are having and will continue to have with Iran," he said, speaking alongside Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
58% : Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi attend a news conference, in Tehran, Iran, March 4, 2023.
57% : The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday talks were ongoing with Iran on two sets of important matters, including the science sector, and there was "great expectation" about the process.
53% : His visit comes amid contacts with Tehran on the origin of the uranium particles enriched to up to 83.7% purity, very close to the 90% threshold for weaponization, at its underground Fordow enrichment plant, according to a report by the UN nuclear watchdog seen by Reuters.
49% :Under a 2015 agreement with six world powers, Iran curbed its disputed uranium enrichment program in return for relief from international sanctions.
47% :Rafael Grossi began meetings in Tehran on Friday that diplomats said were meant to push Iran to cooperate with an IAEA investigation into uranium traces found at undeclared sites that had been enriched close to nuclear-weapons grade.
47% : Iran's stonewalling of a years-long IAEA investigation into uranium traces found at three undeclared sites prompted the United Nations watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors to pass a resolution at its last quarterly meeting in November ordering Tehran to cooperate urgently with the inquiry.
43% : Grossi said it was an "issue of necessity to have a very deep, serious, systematic dialogue with Iran.
35% : Clearly, there is great expectation about our joint work in order to move forward in the issues that Iran and the agency are working on, to clarify and to bring credible assurances about the nuclear program in Iran," Grossi told reporters in Tehran.
14% :Iran often accuses the IAEA of being manipulated by the West and Tehran's arch-foe Israel and of disregarding the Islamic Republic's right to develop a peaceful nuclear programm The IAEA rejects the accusations.
14% : But the accord began to unravel in 2018 after then-US President Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed tough US sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to start violating the deal's strict limits on enrichment.

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