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 by AFP Staff Writers Tehran (AFP) Sept 15, 2021
Iran has demoted its chief nuclear negotiator and replaced him as deputy foreign minister with an opponent of concessions to the West, state media reported Wednesday. Abbas Araghchi will remain part of Iran's negotiating team in talks on reviving a landmark nuclear agreement with major powers but will no longer be styled chief negotiator. He will be replaced as deputy minister by Ali Bagheri, a protege of ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi who served as his deputy for international affairs when Raisi was judiciary chief. Raisi became president in early August, taking over from moderate Hassan Rouhani, the principal architect on the Iranian side of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The deal gave Iran an easing of Western and UN sanctions in return for tight controls on its nuclear programme, monitored by the UN. But in 2018 then US president Donald Trump dealt it a crippling blow by pulling out and reimposing swingeing US sanctions. Trump's successor President Joe Biden has said he wants to bring Washington back into the agreement but talks on doing so have stalled since the change of president in Tehran. Bagheri has repeatedly criticised former president Rouhani for the strict limits he agreed to on Iran's nuclear activities and his willingness to grant "foreigners" access to Iranian nuclear plants and other "sensitive security facilities".
UN nuclear watchdog chief vows 'firmness' with Iran Vienna (AFP) Sept 13, 2021 The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said Monday he would continue to be "firm and fair" with Iran, a day after clinching a deal over access to surveillance equipment at Iran's nuclear facilities. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi was speaking to reporters at the start of a meeting of the agency's board of governors at a delicate moment for international diplomacy on the Iranian nuclear issue. On Sunday he returned from a visit to Tehran where he hammered ... read more
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