Iran agrees to visit by UN nuclear watchdog team to Tehran

The Iranian and other flags flutter in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organisation’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2021. [Michael Gruber/Getty Images]

Iran said Wednesday that it has agreed to a visit by a technical team from the UN nuclear watchdog to the capital, Tehran, Anadolu reports.

“Iran has agreed to the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s technical team to Tehran in the next two to three weeks, but they will not visit Iran’s nuclear facilities,” Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said in statements carried by the Mehr news agency.

During the visit, the framework of Iran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear agency under the new circumstances will be discussed, Gharibabadi said.

READ: Israel’s army chief says war against Iran ‘not over’

0 Comments

Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.