Tehran, YJC. Foreign Ministry Spokesman has said that Asqar Soltaniyeh’s mission in IAEA is over and someone else has to replace him.
Speaking in an interview with YJC, the Spokesman of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araqchi provided comments on reports
regarding the representative of Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency
to return to Iran at the turn of the administrative term and said "As his
mission has ended, Soltaniyeh has returned to Iran. Accordingly someone else
has been considered as his replacement, whose name will be announced after bureaucratic
steps are taken.”
Araqchi also pointed to the transfer of the nuclear case
form the Majlis Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy to the Foreign
Ministry and maintained "No special change has been made in transferring the
nuclear case from the National Security Committee to the ministry yet.”
It is said that the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Islamic
Republic is going to take on the handling of the Iranian nuclear case.
Prior to this, the case was in the hands of the Majlis Committee
for national Security and Foreign Policy headed by Alaeddin Boroujerdi.
It is hoped that the transfer will bring a change in the Iran-West
negotiations that follow.