Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, 2nd right, is welcomed by Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, right, arsenic helium is accompanied by Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, 2nd left, astatine Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

TEHRAN – Iran says that the caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency is arriving successful the state for talks with Iranian officials.

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, said successful a tweet that Rafael Grossi is arriving Saturday, and volition question to Tehran this afternoon. He's scheduled to conscionable Iran's vice-president and caput of the country’s atomic organization, Mohammad Eslami, connected Sunday.

It volition beryllium Grossi’s archetypal sojourn to the state since caller president Ebrahim Raisi took office. Gharibabadi said the 2 sides volition contented a associated connection aft the meeting.

Talks betwixt Iran and satellite powers implicit limiting Iran's atomic programme successful speech for sanctions alleviation person been idle since June, and Raisi took bureau successful August.

Earlier this month, the IAEA successful a study said that Iran has continued to summation its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. It besides said that verification and monitoring activities person been “seriously undermined” since February, aft Iran refused to fto inspectors entree IAEA monitoring equipment.

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In response, Iran said its atomic activities had been “carried retired successful the model of Iran’s atomic rights and nether nonproliferation treaty.”

The 2 large issues being negotiated are the rollback of American sanctions imposed by erstwhile President Donald Trump’s medication aft it withdrew from the deal, and the instrumentality of Iran to compliance with restrictions imposed connected its atomic program.

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