Iran said Wednesday that officials from the UN nuclear watchdog would visit the country in the coming days to resolve the “ambiguities” over claims of secret activities.
The United Nations Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has for months been calling on Iran to explain the presence of nuclear material at three undeclared sites.
The issue has frustrated efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that has been on life support since the United States unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump.
“Agency officials will visit Tehran in the coming days,” Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told reporters in Tehran.
“Our interactions with the agency are ongoing, and we hope that we can make effective progress with the agency in order to resolve the obstacles and ambiguities and take a step forward,” he added.
An IAEA delegation had planned to travel to Tehran last month, but the visit did not take place after the agency’s board of governors deplored Iran’s lack of cooperation in providing “technically credible” answers.
As a result, the agency said it was unable to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of Iran’s nuclear program.
On Friday, Eslami said traces of enriched uranium found in Iran were brought into the country from abroad.
