Reading between the lines though, it would seem that both are creeping toward informal understandings resembling a new nuclear deal, even if both are still testing the other down to the wire.
On the one hand, the headlines from the two reports, one on uranium enrichment and one on nuclear monitoring more generally, painted Iran in a negative light.
They emphasized that Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, continues to grow, that there has been no progress in talks with Tehran on resolving probes into illicit uranium traces found at undeclared sites.
On the other hand, the context here is clear progress between Washington and Tehran toward unfreezing $10 billion in Iranian assets, releasing five US citizens in Iranian prisons, and reduced attacks by Iranian proxies on land against American forces in the Middle East. READ MORE