“Unfortunately this ship has sailed,” Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
The IAEA has strongly condemned the step taken by Iran a year ago as “unprecedented” and called it a “very serious blow” to its ability to carry out meaningful inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution in June calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the agency and reverse the barring of those inspectors, technically known as “de-designation.”
“Until a few months ago they say they were considering and now they say they are not going to reincorporate these inspectors to the list, so unfortunately this ship has sailed,” Grossi told Reuters. READ MORE
