Iran said on Tuesday it had not agreed to inspections of bomb-damaged nuclear facilities, after U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Tehran had agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors back into the country as part of negotiations aimed at ending the war.
Speaking at a weekly press briefing in Tehran on June 23, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Iran had neither met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi during talks in Switzerland nor agreed to inspections of nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli attacks.
“The short answer to both questions is no,” Baghaei said when asked by reporters whether the Iranian delegation had met Grossi and whether Iran would grant inspectors access to sites struck during the conflict….