UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi is set to fly to Tehran this weekend for talks aimed at easing a standoff between Iran and the West as talks on saving the nuclear deal stall
FILE PHOTO: International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi at a news conference at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna.
The IAEA informed member states this week that there had been no progress on two central issues: explaining uranium traces found at several old, undeclared sites and getting urgent access to some monitoring equipment so the agency can continue to keep track of parts of Iran's nuclear programme as provided for by the 2015 deal.
President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal in 2018, re-introducing painful economic sanctions. Iran responded as of 2019 by breaching many of the deal's core restrictions, like enriching uranium to a higher purity, closer to that suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
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