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November 15th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi will visit Tehran soon and will hold talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
“In addition to head of the Atomic Energy Organization (of Iran), Mr. Grossi will also meet with Mr. Amir Abdollahian,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a regular news briefing.
“He (Grossi) has close contacts with the Atomic Energy Organization of our country and our colleagues at (Iran’s) embassy in Vienna. He has been invited and the date has been offered to him. And he will soon depart for Iran,” Khatibzadeh stated.
Grossi’s trip to Iran will most likely take place before the next meeting of the IAEA’s board of governors, which will start on November 22.
News of on Grossi’s invitation comes as diplomats from Iran and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will resume talks Vienna on November 29 to discuss ways to lift the illegal U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The talks had been put on hold since June 20 as Iran was seeing a transition in which a new government came to power.
The Iranian parliament has limited the IAEA’s access to Iran’s nuclear sites in retaliation to the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA in May 2018 and imposition of toughest sanctions in history on the Islamic Republic.
Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to scale down its nuclear activities in exchange for termination of economic and financial sanctions on Iran. The IAEA was tasked to monitor Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA.
Iran remained fully committed to the JCPOA one year after the U.S. quit the deal. However, in May 219 Iran announced that its strategic patience is over and started to gradually remove ban on its nuclear activities. At the time Iran announced if the European parties to the nuclear agreement fulfil their obligation under the agreement it will reverse its decision. However, the European failed to honor their commitments.
Despite limiting the IAEA’s access to nuclear sites, Iran is continuing its cooperation with the UN watchdog body within the framework of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.
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