A visit in person to show the importance of the discussions. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, will personally visit Tehran on Monday for "meetings with the Iranian authorities". A visit that will take place ahead of a meeting of the Joint Committee on the Iranian Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) on September 1, convened following a tense exchange between Americans and Europeans at the UN.
This visit will be his first to the country of Rafael Mariano Grossi since his arrival at the head of the international organization last December. He wishes to discuss with Iran "the possibility for IAEA inspectors to access the places they wish to go," the agency said.
The United States Offensive
In June, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani questioned the independence of the IAEA after the adoption by this UN body of a resolution berating Iran for its refusal to allow the inspection of two suspect sites , a first since 2012. This resolution, presented by Paris, London and Berlin, called on the Islamic Republic to allow the IAEA to access these sites, in order to establish whether or not Iran has carried out nuclear activities there. not reported in the early 2000s.
The joint committee on the Iran nuclear deal, chaired by the European Union (EU), will bring together representatives from China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and Iran in early September. Announced Friday, this meeting will take place after the refusal by the other great powers to the activation by the United States on Thursday at the UN of a controversial procedure to demand the reinstatement within a month of international sanctions against the United Nations. 'Iran.
Transatlantic tensions
Washington slammed the door of the international Iranian nuclear compromise in 2018, and most other countries are legally contesting Americans' ability to claim "participant" status in the 2015 Vienna Accord, such as they did it on Thursday.
The tone rose to the UN Thursday, the head of the American diplomacy Mike Pompeo going so far as to accuse France, the United Kingdom and Germany of having "chosen to align themselves with the ayatollahs" in power in the Islamic Republic.
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