U.N. nuclear watchdog chief to visit Tehran on Tuesday, IAEA confirms

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Publish Date: 23:34 - 18 November 2021
Thursday, 18 November 2021 (YJC)_ IAEA confirms that the U.N. nuclear watchdog will hold meetings with Iranian officials on Tuesday.

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief to visit Tehran on Tuesday, IAEA confirmsU.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will hold meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed on Thursday.

Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, told state media on Wednesday Grossi would meet Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and nuclear energy chief Mohammad Eslami. The IAEA did not say in its statement whom Grossi would meet.

"We can confirm that Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi will meet with high-level Iranian government officials in Tehran on Tuesday, 23 November," the IAEA said.

The visit will be on the eve of a quarterly meeting of the IAEA's Board of Governors and before indirect talks between Iran and the United States on Nov. 29 on reviving their nuclear deal.

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