Talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency will be “technical” and “complicated,” the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry says ahead of a visit by the nuclear watchdog for the first time since Tehran cut ties with the organization last month.
Relations between the two soured after a 12-day air war was waged by Israel and the US in June, which saw key Iranian nuclear facilities bombed. The IAEA board said on June 12 that Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations, a day before Israel’s airstrikes over Iran that sparked the war.
Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, tells reporters there could be a meeting with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, “but it is a bit soon to predict what the talks will result since these are technical talks, complicated talks.”
Baghaei also criticizes the IAEA’s “unique situation” during the June war with Israel.
“Peaceful facilities of a country that was under 24-hour monitoring were the target of strikes and the agency refrained from showing a wise and rational reaction and did not condemn it as it was required,” he says.
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