Iran: Hardliner poised to take over as chief nuclear negotiator

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Iran agreed the agency would have access to its monitoring equipment to replace their memory cards and service them.
47% : The recordings will still be kept in Tehran pending the lifting of US sanctions.
47% : Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's IAEA envoy, said in a tweet on Tuesday that "security measures at the nuclear facilities in Iran are, reasonably, tightened".
46% : The appointments come as Iran and the US, China, Russia, and European powers are expected to return to the Austrian capital at a critical stage for the JCPOA.
45% : Safari is a former ambassador to China and Russia, another signal that Iran is increasingly turning towards the east.
43% : Jalili himself headed nuclear negotiations with the West - from 2007 to 2013 - but they led nowhere and the UN Security Council continued to sanction Iran under then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
42% : Another crisis looming over the resumption of the talks was avoided on Sunday when Iran and the global nuclear watchdog reached an agreement struck in Tehran.
39% : The US and European powers had pursued a similar resolution earlier this year, which prompted a temporary agreement between Iran and the IAEA to avert a crisis.
38% : The agreement avoided the possibility of a potential censure against Iran at the IAEA board of governors meeting.
33% : Iran's Natanz nuclear facility has been the target of two sabotage attacks in the past year, which Iran has blamed on Israel.
30% : The agency called the incident "unacceptable" and said it raised the issue with Iran and there had been no further incidents.

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