The IAEA bets on temperance with Iran at the beginning of its director general's visit to Tehran

MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The director general of the UN nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, has called for calm in the nuclear talks with Iran in his first press conference at the beginning of his visit to the islamic republic.

Grossi visits Iran after learning that the country has enriched uranium to levels close to what is necessary to manufacture a nuclear weapon, in what Tehran has described as a side effect of the usual process, without major significance.

At a press conference with his counterpart from the Iranian nuclear agency, Mohamed Eslami, Grossi explained that his intention is to moderate the tension with the Iranian authorities. "We are ready to continue with the meetings and expectations are high," he indicated.

Grossi, when asked about a possible American or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear facilities, has reiterated that his organization condemns all attacks and threats against nuclear facilities.

"Any military action against nuclear power plants is totally reprehensible and illegal and is outside international standards," he said in statements collected by the semi-official Iranian news agency ISNA.

"We want to have a serious and systematic dialogue with Iran," said the IAEA director general, "in an atmosphere based on honesty and cooperation."

Eslami, for his part, has also shown himself willing to hold frank discussions with the IAEA, based on "mutual trust" before asking the UN agency to "fulfil its duty" towards Iran as a "guarantor" of the safeguard measures by which the international community and the Islamic republic undertook when verifying the Iranian uranium enrichment process.

These measures are practically the only thing that remains of the international nuclear agreement signed in 2015 between Iran and the international community, practically broken since the unilateral withdrawal of the United States three years later, by order of then President Donald Trump, and the consequent resumption of sanctions. Americans against Tehran.