Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will embark on a two-day visit to Iran amid concerns of uranium enrichment in the Islamic Republic.
Grossi will visit Iran on May 6 and 7.
In December of last year, the IAEA announced Iran already has enough uranium enriched to up to 60%, while enriching it further to at least 90 percent weapons-grade level is enough to create three atomic bombs.
The UN agency slammed Iran’s decision to ban several inspectors from checking potential nuclear sites in the country by removing their accreditation in September 2023.
” You know, the way to dispel any doubts is to allow the IAEA to inspect. If they allow us to work then there will be confidence. Otherwise, it will be very complicated,” Rafael Mariano Grossi IAEA Director General said.
Iran described the move as retaliation for “political abuses” by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, and reiterated that the withdrawal of accreditation was within its rights.
It was in 2018 when former US President Donald Trump officially declared the country’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran which he described as a “giant fiction.” There have been several reports of Iran resuming its uranium enrichment activities since then.
“At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal. We will not allow a regime that chants, “Death to America,” to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth,” Donald Trump Former President of the United States said.
Iran denied any plans to create nuclear weapons and maintained its atomic program is purely for civilian purposes.
Grossi’s visit will coincide with a nuclear energy conference to be held in the city of Isfahan in central Iran.
