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Iran says IAEA director to visit soon

Iran has presented its case ahead of the nuclear talks.

Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi.
Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi holds a press conference after a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 13, 2021. — ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images

Two weeks before the world powers and Iran are set to resume the nuclear talks, the United Nations nuclear watchdog will visit Iran “soon,” said Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh. 

Director of the International Atomic Energy Organization Rafael Grossi will also meet with the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Islami, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, according to Khatibzadeh. 

In response to a question about the upcoming Nov. 29 nuclear talks in Vienna, Khatibzadeh said, “Our focus in Vienna will be to remove all of the sanctions that have been applied to our country illegally by the [United States].” 

An article in the administration-run Iran Newspaper presented Iran’s positions ahead of the talks designed to get the United States back into the deal it exited in 2018 and Iran back into full compliance. The title of the article above the fold read “Operation Defeat Sanctions.”

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