Iran Sets up Meeting on IAEA Inquiry as Diplomatic Clash Looms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% :Iran has yet to provide new material, however, and its offer came before next week's quarterly meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors at which diplomats say they expect Western powers to push for a resolution calling on Iran to cooperate, a move that Tehran usually bristles at.
58% : "You can see the pattern of Iran is always similar.
57% : The 2015 deal only lets Iran produce enriched uranium with more basic, first-generation centrifuges.
55% : Historically you see a pattern," the senior diplomat said when asked about the planned meeting in Tehran, pointing to previous meetings and offers preceding Board of Governors sessions.
52% :Iran has agreed to a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog this month to start giving answers the agency and its 35-nation board have long called for on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, an IAEA report on Thursday seen by Reuters said.
45% :"(IAEA chief Rafael Grossi) takes note of Iran's proposal to hold a further technical meeting with senior Agency officials in Tehran before the end of the month, but stresses that this meeting should be aimed at effectively clarifying and resolving those issues," one of two confidential IAEA reports on Iran sent to member states on Thursday ahead of the board meeting said.
44% :Iran has recently installed hundreds more advanced centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, at its underground plants at Natanz and Fordow.
38% : Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, saying its nuclear technology is solely for civil purposes.
37% : The IAEA "expects to start receiving from Iran technically credible explanations on these issues, including access to locations and material, as well as the taking of samples as appropriate", it added.
36% : Iran responded by breaching and going well beyond the deal's restrictions.
35% : The issue has become an obstacle in wider talks to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, since Tehran has demanded a closure of the IAEA's investigation in those talks.
30% : In 2018, then-President Donald Trump ordered a US withdrawal from the deal, reimposing US sanctions against Tehran.

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