IAEA head: Iran deal will need to be revamped, inspectors only getting blurred image
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog says advances made by Iran since the 2015 nuclear deal’s collapse means there will have to be changes to the original agreement.
“The reality is that we are dealing with a very different Iran,” International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi tells the Associated Press. “2022 is so different from 2015 that there will have to be adjustments that take into consideration these new realities so our inspectors can inspect whatever the countries agree at the political table.”
“There’s no other country other than those making nuclear weapons reaching those high levels” of uranium enrichment, Grossi says of Iran. “I’ve said many times that this doesn’t mean that Iran has a nuclear weapon. But it does mean that this level of enrichment is one that requires an intense verification effort.”
