Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2019, Rafael Grossi is visiting Iran on Wednesday, April 16. In an interview with Le Monde, he expressed his desire for his organization to be involved in the dialogue initiated in Oman between Iran and the United States on the Iranian nuclear issue. He believes that Iran is "not far" from having nuclear weapons.

We are not part of the bilateral dialogue between Mr. Araghchi and Mr. Witkoff, but we are not indifferent to it. They know well that we will have to give our opinion on any potential agreement because we will be the ones to verify it. We have therefore already initiated informal exchanges with them. But as soon as there is a text with concrete provisions, we will be called to give our opinion on the procedures and the extent of the checks to be implemented.

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