The head of the UN atomic agency visited Iran after denouncing the increase in the regime’s reserves of enriched uranium

He director of international atomic energy agency(IAEA), Raphael Grossiarrives this Friday at Tehran talk about Iranian nuclear programafter the discovery of enriched uranium particles close to the level needed to make an atomic bomb.

Rafael Grossi is due to meet several Iranian leaders on Saturday, including the president Ebrahim Raisisaid diplomatic sources in Vienna, where the UN agency is based.

According to a confidential IAEA report to which he had access AFP on Tuesday, particles of enriched uranium were found in 83.7%just below 90% forced to do a atomic bombin the underground factory Fordabout 100 km south of Tehran.

Iran denies wanting to acquire the nuclear bomb and justifies itself by saying that there was “involuntary fluctuations” in the enrichment process.

The Islamic republic has claimed that it has made no attempt to enrich uranium beyond 60% and insists that its nuclear program is purely civilian.

During his visit, Grossi will try to find out more and obtain greater access to the establishment “and a increase in the number of inspections“, according to a diplomatic source in Vienna.

The Argentine diplomat will address the press upon his return to Vienna on Saturday evening, the IAEA said.

The short visit comes nearly a year after Grossi’s last trip to Tehran in March 2022, when a deal seemed possible for resume negotiations between the great powers and Iran over its nuclear programme.

In a geopolitical context disrupted by the war in Ukraine, however, the opportunity failed. And since then, the concern has continued to grow United States, Europe and Israel on the possibility that Iran is capable of producing atomic bombs.

In this context, the director of the IAEA wants “relaunch the dialogue” after months of deterioration.

Iran has increasingly reneged on the terms of the 2015 deal to limit its atomic activities in exchange for lifting international sanctions against it.

The agreement has stalled since the United States, under the presidency of donald trumpHe decided withdraw unilaterally the same in 2018.

He Pentagon assured that Iran could produce fissile material to produce a nuclear bomb “in about twelve days”, amid growing international concerns over the Iranian nuclear program and stalled talks to revive the 2015 deal.

U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahlindicated that the Iranian authorities have made “remarkable” progress in their nuclear program since the aforementioned year 2018.

“In 2018, when the previous administration decided to abandon the nuclear deal, Iran would have needed twelve months to produce fissile material for a bomb,” he said, before insisting on the fact that “now it would take about twelve days”, according to the channel. American television CNN.

(With information from EFE)

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