إيران: جولة مفاوضات جديدة مع وكالة الطاقة الذرية خلال أيام

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ismail Baqaei, announced that a new round of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be held soon. He stated in a press conference today (Monday) that Tehran will continue talks with the agency, and that both parties will likely conduct another round of negotiations in the coming days.

Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reported that his country has entered a "new era" in its relationship with the agency, announcing an invitation to the agency's deputy director to visit Tehran, in response to repeated requests from the agency.

At that time, Araghchi addressed the issue of the Iranian parliament voting on a law to suspend cooperation with the IAEA, and a visit by a delegation from the agency to Tehran. He said: "The parliament has approved a very important law. In fact, they made cooperation with the agency contingent on the decisions of the Supreme National Security Council."

He added: "In the past few months, the agency has not had a good record with us; before the war with Israel, they issued a resolution that paved the way for many bad things," considering that "the worst was when the illegal and barbaric attack on our nuclear facilities occurred, and the director general of the agency, whose mission is to protect peaceful facilities, refrained from condemning the attacks," referring to the American and Israeli attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities last June.

Araghchi pointed out that "the agency must know that new conditions prevail, and that our nuclear facilities have been damaged."

The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, approved a law in early July to suspend cooperation with the IAEA following the Israeli and American strikes that targeted Iranian nuclear sites.

The Iranian law stipulates that any future inspections of Iranian nuclear sites by the IAEA require the approval of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran.

For its part, the IAEA emphasized the necessity of allowing it to resume inspection operations following the Israeli and American airstrikes last June, which aimed to destroy Iran's nuclear program and deprive it of the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

The IAEA is deeply concerned about the fate of Iranian stocks amounting to about 400 kilograms of enriched uranium.

The IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated that Tehran indicated it would be ready to resume some discussions at the technical level. He added that Iran must be clear about its facilities and activities.

Iran and the United States held five rounds of talks mediated by Oman, but those discussions have been suspended since the 12-day war in June between Iran and Israel.

According to current and former U.S. officials quoted by NBC NEWS, an American assessment concluded that most of one of the three targeted Iranian nuclear sites was destroyed in these airstrikes, but the other two sites did not sustain significant damage.