Tehran, YJC. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) representatives started technical talks with Iranian counterparts on Monday.
IAEA representative Reza Najafi represented the Islamic Republic and IAEA's
Deputy Director General for Safegurds Tero Varjoranta represented the agency.
The talks were held in the presence of representatives from Iran's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
The visit follows a few days after Iran’s envoy to the IAEA
Reza Najafi said Iran was ready to allow IAEA inspectors visit a site in
Marivan, Kurdistan Province in western Iran.
A IAEA report in 2011 claimed to have information indicating
large-scale high-explosive experiments at the site.
Najafi said November 20, 2014 Iran would give the
Vienna-based IAEA access to the Marivan site on a "voluntary basis”.
Tehran’s cooperation with IAEA is intended to provide
optimum transparency on its nuclear activities in order to help solve disputes
with Western powers.
"The recent report issued by IAEA was vague and did not meet
Iran's interests as we have provided clear explanations which had not been
reflected in the recent report,” Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization
of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said last week.
Iran and the group 5+1 are trying to hammer out a
comprehensive nuclear deal by July 1.
Iran says that the revocation of all sanctions is needed
before it could strike the deal.