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Iran, IAEA hold 'progressive' talks about new framework for cooperation: Envoy

Iran Press TV

Friday, 22 August 2025 6:38 PM

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have held progressive talks about setting a new framework for bilateral cooperation, the Iranian envoy to the agency has said.

Reza Najafi said on Friday that an Iranian delegation met with the IAEA deputy head in Vienna in the continuation of discussions held between the sides during a visit by the agency's official to Tehran earlier in August.

"The parties made progress in this round of talks and it was agreed that discussions would continue to develop a protocol for interaction arrangements within the framework of the parliamentary law," he added.

He emphasized that the Iranian and IAEA representatives continued discussions initiated in Tehran and exchanged views about bilateral cooperation in light of the new circumstances created by the unlawful attacks by the United States and the Israeli regime on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities and within the framework of the parliamentary law suspending Tehran's full cooperation with the agency.

"The new conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran for cooperation with the IAEA were outlined," Najafi said.

On August 11, Massimo Aparo, Deputy to Rafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, travelled to Tehran and held talks with Iranian officials about possible ways for interaction amid the new circumstances.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the country's delegation expressed strong criticism about the IAEA's failure to fulfill its responsibilities during the Israeli-US acts of aggression in June.

The Iranian team also informed the IAEA's delegation of Tehran's demands for reforming the incorrect processes governing the agency pertaining to the Iranian nuclear issue.

Iran says the IAEA chief has failed to fulfill his legal duties in protecting the country's peaceful nuclear facilities against the Israeli-US attacks. Tehran also emphasizes that the IAEA chief's biased technical report regarding Iran's nuclear program prepared the ground for such acts of aggression.

On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and killing hundreds of civilians.

On June 22, the United States also entered the war and bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, in a clear violation of international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

On June 25, the Iranian Parliament unanimously passed a law mandating the government to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA. Under the law, the agency's inspectors will not be permitted to enter Iran unless the security of the country's nuclear facilities and that of peaceful nuclear activities is guaranteed, which is subject to the approval of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

The Vienna talks on Friday were held in parallel with a phone conversation between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and the EU high representative for foreign and security policy and his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany—the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Araghchi told the Europeans that Tehran is open to any diplomatic solution that safeguards its national rights, while warning Europe that triggering the JCPOA snapback mechanism would carry serious consequences.