Iran Agrees To Let Inspectors Install New Memory Cards In Nuclear Site Cameras

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi (right), speaks with the deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, upon his arrival at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport on Saturday.
53% : "My main concern now is that the Iranian negotiating team stays largely intact and that Iran builds on the progress made in six rounds of prior talks in Vienna."
52% : The director-general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, flew to Tehran this weekend to discuss the situation with the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
50% : Iran has agreed to allow international inspectors to install new memory cards in the surveillance cameras that monitor Iran's nuclear sites.
45% : The surveillance footage will continue to be kept under seal inside Tehran, where inspectors don't currently have access to it.
44% : But it has been unclear whether Iran, headed by hard-line president Ebrahim Raisi since last month, would be receptive to further negotiations.
41% : Western countries, including the U.S., were said to be considering censuring Iran for its recalcitrance -- an act that itself could run the risk of jeopardizing further talks aimed at getting Iran to honor the 2015 nuclear deal.
40% : Whether he can marshal enough flexibility within the political establishment in Tehran to agree to the requisite painful compromises is a different question."
38% : "We had a major, major communication breakdown with Iran, which, of course, is something we cannot afford, having so many important issues that we need to solve," Grossi told reporters after he returned, the according to the Associated Press. "
37% : "Whereas in reality Iran could resurrect this crisis in a few months time by threatening to delete monitoring tapes and other data if not offered sanctions relief."
36% : The agreement came days after reports by the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran had been stonewalling its investigations and impeding its monitoring activities.
21% : Questions over the fate of the agreement have swirled since Donald Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018 and imposed new sanctions on Iran.

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