Behrouz Kamalvandi, the deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran’s regime, said on Friday, April 18, in an interview with Iranian media, that during the recent visit of Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to Tehran, “some of his interviews” were met with objections.
The regime-affiliated website Fararu quoted Kamalvandi as saying: “Specifically, there was an objection to Mr. Grossi’s recent remarks about Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile, which he equated to seven atomic bombs.”
In its latest report on February 26, the IAEA announced that the Iranian regime had significantly increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium over the past three months, and if this trend continues, the uranium reserves could theoretically be enough to build six nuclear bombs.
The Director General of the IAEA returned to Vienna on Thursday, April 17, after two days of talks with Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian regime’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
Rafael Grossi is expected to attend the second round of negotiations between Iran and the United States, which will be held on Saturday, April 19, in Rome, the capital of Italy.
Grossi has emphasized that an agreement between the Iranian regime and the United States will not be credible without the involvement of the IAEA.
In another part of his remarks to Iranian media, Kamalvandi stated that during Grossi’s recent visit to Tehran, “two Iranian officials, in separate meetings, stressed Iran’s firm stance against threats and warned that the Islamic Republic would deliver a strong response to any threat.”
The spokesperson of the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization announced that the IAEA Deputy Director General will travel to Tehran in two weeks for the “continuation of high-level technical negotiations.”
