Iran, IAEA in monitoring breakthrough

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : During the visit on 3 and 4 March, Grossi met President Ebrahim Raisi, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)
61% : The AEOI and the IAEA agreed that interactions "will be carried out in a spirit of collaboration, and in full conformity with the competences of the IAEA and the rights and obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on the comprehensive safeguards agreement".
61% : Grossi held press conferences after his visit to Iran and also ahead of his address to Board of Governors, during which he said that being able for the first time to hold talks with the President of Iran as well as having "substantive" discussions with the vice-president and foreign minister had led to "real substance" in all areas under discussion.
60% : Iran has agreed to enhanced cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as it carries out its verification and monitoring activities, including the reinstallation of monitoring cameras, following a visit by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi to the Islamic Republic.
59% : The IAEA is responsible for verifying and monitoring the implementation by Iran of its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA, which was agreed in 2015 between Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the USA, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.
58% : In the spirit of the joint statement, I look forward promptly to engaging in technical follow-up discussions with Iran, as we have agreed.
56% : Iran "expressed its readiness to continue its cooperation and provide further information and access to address the outstanding safeguards issues" at three undeclared locations and also said it will "on a voluntary basis" allow the IAEA to implement "further appropriate verification and monitoring activities", the modalities of which will be agreed "soon".
53% : Grossi also referred to the discovery at Fordow earlier this year of particles of uranium with enrichment levels "well beyond" those declared by Iran.
52% : "Following my discussions with Vice-President Eslami in Tehran on Saturday, I note Iran's agreement to allow the Agency to proceed with further monitoring and verification measures indispensable to the Agency fulfilling its mission.
51% : In January of this year, Grossi said, Iran implemented a "significant change to the declared design information" for the Fordow plant without first informing the Agency, contrary to Iran's obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency, but has since said it will work with the Agency to increase the "frequency and intensity" of IAEA verification activities at Fordow.
49% : Grossi described these measures as a "tourniquet on the bleeding of information and lack of continuity of knowledge" in Iran, enabling the agency to begin "reconstructing these baselines of information".
49% : Under its terms, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities including uranium enrichment over a 15-year period and to allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.
43% : The USA withdrew from the deal in May 2018, and in January 2021, the IAEA reported that Iran had resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity at its Fordow enrichment plant.

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