Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, center, speaks with Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, left, upon his accomplishment astatine Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, sits astatine right. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

TEHRAN – Iran agreed Sunday to let planetary inspectors to instal caller representation cards into surveillance cameras astatine its delicate atomic sites and to proceed filming there, the caput of its atomic programme said, averting a diplomatic showdown this week.

Mohammad Eslami of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced the determination aft a gathering helium held with the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, successful Tehran.

Since precocious February, Iran has restricted IAEA inspectors from accessing the surveillance footage arsenic Tehran's atomic woody with satellite powers has collapsed.

The announcement could bargain clip for Iran up of an IAEA committee gathering this week successful which Western powers had been arguing for Tehran to beryllium censured implicit its deficiency of practice with planetary inspectors.

The IAEA told subordinate states successful its confidential quarterly study past week that its verification and monitoring activities person been “seriously undermined” since February by Iran’s refusal to fto inspectors entree their monitoring equipment.

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In Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Nafatli Bennett urged satellite powers to not “fall into the trap of Iranian deception that volition pb to further concessions” implicit the impasse.

“You indispensable not springiness up connected inspecting sites and the astir important thing, the astir important connection is that determination indispensable beryllium a clip limit,” Bennett said. Iran “are dragging on, we indispensable acceptable a clear-cut deadline that says: until here.”

From Riyadh, the apical diplomats of Saudi Arabia and Austria jointly expressed interest implicit Iran’s atomic advances, with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg citing “Iran’s nonaccomplishment to let entree for atomic inspections.”

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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers Ilan Ben Zion successful Jerusalem and Isabel DeBre successful Dubai contributed to this report.

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