ViennacTypeface:> The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, says he wants to negotiate without making any threats in the nuclear dispute with Iran.
Grossi would like to meet Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian before the US presidential election at the beginning of November, the IAEA Director General said during a press conference in Vienna on Monday.
Tehran recently announced that Pezeshkian was willing to meet the IAEA chief in Iran. Grossi has been trying for months to restart talks in order to persuade the Islamic Republic to cooperate with IAEA inspectors. In June, the IAEA Board of Governors threatened to commission Grossi to produce a comprehensive report on unresolved issues relating to Iran’s nuclear programme if Iran did not cooperate.
"My approach is to try to solve issues now and not to have a perspective of punitive action at some point in the future,” Grossi said on Thursday. (DPA)