- “The community is not enough to deny nuclear weapons.”
- “We need to be able to verify,” says IAEA Chief Rafael Gossi.
- There was an immediate requirement of diplomacy for timely official stress.
Tehran: United Nations nuclear guard chief Rafael Gossi warned on Wednesday that Iran was “not far” from placing a atomic bomb, he reached Tehran for talks shortly before.
Western countries, including the United States, have long accused Iran of acquiring nuclear weapons, an allegation has been constantly denied by Tehran, insisting that its program is for peaceful civil purposes.
“It’s like a puzzle. They have pieces, and one day they can eventually keep them together,” Groxy told the French newspaper Le Monde In an interview published on Wednesday.
He said, “There is still a way before going there. But they are not far away, it has to be accepted,” he said.
The United Nations Watchdog was assigned to oversee Iran’s nuclear program and compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, which fell after three years when the United States retreated during the first term of President Donald Trump.
Grosi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said, “It is not enough to the international community that we do not have nuclear weapons.
He reached Tehran on Wednesday and met Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. He is also expected to meet Iran’s nuclear power agency head Mohammad Eslami.
Groxy described his meeting with Argchi as “important”.
He said on X, “Cooperation with IAEA is indispensable to provide reliable assurance about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, when diplomacy is immediately needed,” he said on X.
The visit of Gersian comes beyond the second round of conversation between Iran and the United States on Saturday, both countries held their highest level negotiations since leaving the nuclear deal in 2018.
Both sides called the first meeting “creative”.
‘Contraction’
Earlier, Argchi stated that Uranium was a “non-pervantic” promotion of uranium under the Iran’s nuclear program, the Middle East of the US, Steve Witchoff after the end of the end.
“The promotion of Iran is a real, accepted case,” he told reporters.
“We are ready to create confidence in response to potential concerns, but the issue of enrichment is non-conventional.”
Witcoff said on Tuesday that Iran should “stop and finish” to enrich uranium as part of any nuclear deal.
A day earlier, Witchoff only urged that Iran returned to the 3.67% enrichment sealing set by the 2015 agreement.
In its latest report, IAEA stated that Iran had an estimated 274.8kg (605 pounds) rich in up to 60%of uranium.
This level is more than the terrace prescribed from the 2015 deal, but still lower than the 90% range required for nuclear warheads.
After returning to office in January, Trump resumes comprehensive sanctions against Iran under his “maximum pressure” policy.
In March, he wrote to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged the conversation, but if they fail to make a deal, a warning of potential military action also.
Next to Saturday’s new round of talks, Argchi condemned what he called the “contradictory and conflicting positions” of the Trump administration.
“We will find out the true opinion of Americans during the talks session,” he said.
Araghchi said he expected to start negotiations on the structure of a possible agreement, but needed “creative positions” from the United States.
“If we listen to contradictory and conflicting positions (listen), we are going to have problems,” he warned.
‘Red Rekha’
On Wednesday, the Iranian state media said that Saturday’s talks would be held in Rome with Omani arbitration, as an Italian spokesperson also confirmed the location.
However, the US and Iranian officials have not officially confirmed the site.
Araghchi is ready for the head of Iran’s Russia on Thursday, said Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow Kazam Jalili.
Iran has said that the yatra was “pre-planned”, but it would include discussion on Iran-US talks.
“(My) Russia’s visit aims to give a written message to the supreme leader” to President Vladimir Putin, Argchi said.
In readiness for American talks, Iran is associated with Russia and China, both sides of the 2015 deal.
The official IRNA news agency stated that further over Saturday’s conversation, Iranian President Masood Peseshkian said he hoped that he could be a deal with the United States.
On Tuesday, Khamenei warned that while the talks went well in their early stages, they could still prove to be fruitless.
He said, “Whether or not the talks can give results,” he said, seeing that Iran had already underlined its “red lines”.
Revolutionary guards of Iran have said that the country’s military capabilities are off-lymph in talks.
And late on Sunday, IRNA stated that Iran’s regional influence and its missile capabilities – both sources of Western anxiety – were also in its “red lines”.
