Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is set to hold a landmark meeting with his French Counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in Paris on Wednesday, according to AFP.Top of Form
“Foreign Minister Araghchi will travel to France on Wednesday, and hold talks with the minister,” the French Ministry said.
The meeting comes in a crucial time as Western powers are pressuring Tehran to grant the UN nuclear watchdog’s inspectors access to its nuclear facilities.
Therefore, the talks seek to urge Iran to resume its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran & IAEA Relations
Notably, Tehran cut off its relations with the UN Nuclear Watchdog after Israel and the US launched strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in June.
On September 28, the European powers_ Britain, France, and Germany_ reimposed sanctions on Tehran after they claimed that Iran has violated a 2015 deal that aimed at halting it from developing a nuclear weapon.
Iran has denied this accusation and said that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
UN Resolution
On Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution demanding that Iran submit “without delay” the status of its enriched-uranium stockpile and its bombed nuclear sites.
The resolution seeks basically to renew and refine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s mandate to monitor key aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.
In response, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said that his country had notified the IAEA in a letter that, in addition to scrapping the agreement reached in Cairo over the summer, Tehran could take “other actions” in response to Thursday’s resolution.
Baghaei did not clarify or detail what further actions Iran would take. However, the decision of further uranium enrichment by the country is still possible.
The French Ministry that the upcoming meeting “will be an opportunity for us to call on Iran to comply with its obligations towards the IAEA and to quickly resume cooperation with the agency.”
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