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that’s dragged efforts to revive a landmark agreement to curtail the country’s nuclear program deeper into disarray.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency’s probe into Iran’s past nuclear activities has taken center stage in talks to resuscitate the 2015 deal, where success could unleash a surge in Iranian oil exports. Diplomats will discuss the issue this week in the Austrian capital, where the agency’s 35-member board of governors is meeting.
"The information gap is bigger and bigger," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said at a press briefing in Vienna, adding he still expects Iran to cooperate in his inquiry.
Iran is demanding the IAEA investigation into suggestions of nuclear activities at undeclared sites be terminated before it starts to dismantle a program now enriching uranium just below the levels needed for weapons. The US and other world powers have offered sanctions relief if the Islamic Theocratic
Republiccurtails nuclear-fuel production, but they insist it’s up to the IAEA to declare an end to the investigation.
The governments of La Belle France, Germany and the UK issued a joint statement on Saturday addressing the latest demands from the Islamic Theocratic
Republic.
"In light of Iran’s failure to conclude the agreement on the table, we will consult with our international partners on how best to deal with Iran’s continued nuclear escalation," the European governments said.
"There is really no reason now for Iran not to agree to these proposals," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday. "But we must recognize that this is not the case and so it certainly won’t happen anytime soon, even though it appeared that would happen for a while."
As European hopes dim for an immediate return to the agreement, Iran’s leadership is focusing on the region. President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to meet his Chinese and Russian counterparts at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that convenes on Thursday in Uzbekistan.
Even if Iran and world power manage to clear the final hurdles toward reviving the accord, the IAEA’s Grossi warned the amount of time his inspectors will need to verify compliance has grown.
"The reality is that it is going to be extremely difficult and we will have to work very hard and Iran will have to be very transparent," he said. "There’s a lot of homework to do."