IAEA, Iran Signal Some Progress on Access to Nuclear Program

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Its restoration would allow Iran to return to the global oil market.
55% : IAEA inspectors this week reported that Iran had increased its stockpile of enriched uranium close to the levels needed for weapons and was expanding its production capacity.
51% : He was in Tehran ahead of the Vienna-based organization's board of governors meeting starting Monday.
50% : Eslami said the old memory cards will remain in Tehran but cameras will continue to record data with new ones.
49% : The United Nations nuclear watchdog signaled some progress in talks with Iranian officials in Tehran over access to its expanding nuclear program, with prospects for reviving the crippled atomic deal still uncertain.
49% : "Inspectors are permitted to service the identified equipment and replace their storage media which will be kept under the joint IAEA and AEOI seals in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a joint Iran-IAEA statement said.
47% : Iran's nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said Iran agreed to allow nuclear inspectors to replace the memory cards of surveillance cameras at atomic sites after a "constructive" meeting with Grossi.
47% : The Biden administration is interested in reviving the deal, with conditions attached, and together with Europe has been trying to coax Iran back to the table as soon as this month.
46% : Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, but doubts about its intentions motivated world powers to seek the original nuclear accord.
45% : The IAEA statement didn't include any progress on that front and European nations are still holding out the possibility of a rebuke that could eventually send Iran back to the UN Security Council.
40% : While the concession is likely to be welcomed by IAEA envoys meeting this week in Vienna, Iran still faces possible censure over its failure to cooperate in an IAEA investigation into uranium traces found at several undeclared locations in Iran.
24% : The agreement unraveled after Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of it in 2018 and resumed sanctions, leading Tehran to breach limits on its nuclear activity that it had adhered to beforehand.

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