Inspectors from the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog will visit nuclear sites in Iran, its chief has said, after contradictory remarks from the US and Iran on whether those sites would be inspected as part of their agreement to end the war.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Mariano Grossi said the memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran “says explicitly that the nuclear activities that are going to be carried out with the regards to the nuclear material facilities will be supervised by the IAEA — in all letters.”
“Obviously, to do that, we will have to inspect,” the Associated Press quoted him as telling journalists in Japan on Wednesday.
Trump on Tuesday insisted Iran had agreed to more UN nuclear inspections, rebuffing Iran’s claim that no visit has been scheduled for IAEA inspectors.
The IAEA inspected an active Iranian nuclear facility in early June but it’s been roughly a year since the agency has had access to any of the nuclear facilities damaged in the 2025 US-Israeli bombing of Iran.
