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Tehran, they will, after the first negotiations between Iran and the US this month.
“It’s like a puzzle: they have the pieces and one day they can gather them. There is still a long way to go before they arrive. But they are not far, we have to admit,” warns the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran is close to having a atomic bombwarned the director general of the Atomic International Energy Agency (AIEA), in an interview with the newspaper, a few hours before a visit to Tehran to discuss ways to improve their inspectors’ access to the Iranian program.
“It’s like a puzzle: they have the pieces and one day they can gather them. There is still a long way to go before they arrive. But They are not farWe have to admit, ”he said.“ It is not enough to tell the international community. ‘We have no nuclear weapons’ so that we believe. We need to be able to check, ”added Rafael Mariano Grossi.
AIEA played a key role in verifying the conformity of Iran regarding the nuclear agreement 2015signed with five world powers, and continued to work in the Islamic Republic even after US President Donald Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the United States from the agreement in 2018.
Since then, Iran for the old agreement and now has 274 pounds of uranium enriched with 60% purityclose to 90% of military degreeaccording to the IAEA.
“The continuation of commitment and cooperation with the agency is essential at a time when diplomatic solutions are urgently necessary,” Grossi wrote on social network X.
Country knocks on the door in Trump’s face
Since returning to the US presidency, Donald Trump insists on negotiating with Iran over his nuclear programthreatening to launch a military action against the Iranians if an agreement is not reached.
Nevertheless, the head of Iranian diplomacy said on Wednesday that the issue of uranium enrichment “is non -negotiable“.
Western countries, led by the United States, have long suspected that Iran wishes to acquire nuclear weapons, although they will reject these allegations and defend the right to nuclear energy for civil purposes.
By 2022, the same responsible for the AIEA already warned: the nuclear program of Iran is progressing “very, very quickly”.
Iran and the United States, which have not maintained diplomatic relations since 1980, had conversations last Saturday, mediated by the oman sultanate about the Iranian nuclear program and are expected to meet again next Saturday.
