{"id":27681,"date":"2021-11-24T03:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=27681"},"modified":"2021-11-24T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:22:06","slug":"head-of-iaea-in-tehran-ahead-of-vienna-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/head-of-iaea-in-tehran-ahead-of-vienna-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of IAEA in Tehran ahead of Vienna Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] has arrived in Tehran for meetings with top Iranian officials, days before the resumption of high-profile talks in Vienna on the removal of the United States\u2019 sanctions against the Islamic Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Grossi arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport on Monday evening and was welcomed by the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran [AEOI], Behrouz Kamalvandi.<\/p>\n<p>The UN nuclear watchdog\u2019s chief is scheduled to meet with the head of the AEOI, Mohammad Eslami, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He will also hold talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Tuesday afternoon when they will meet for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on creating a framework for cooperation between the IAEA and the AEOI are high on the agenda of Grossi\u2019s visit to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Before heading for Tehran, Grossi hoped in a tweet that his visit would help \u201cestablish a fruitful and cooperative channel of direct dialogue\u201d between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m travelling to Tehran today for meetings with Iranian officials to address outstanding questions in #Iran. I hope to establish a fruitful and cooperative channel of direct dialogue so the @IAEAorg can resume essential verification activities in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grossi\u2019s trip also comes ahead of the meeting of the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] has arrived in Tehran for meetings with top Iranian officials, days before the resumption of high-profile talks in Vienna on the removal of the United States\u2019 sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Rafael Grossi arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport on Monday evening and was welcomed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27683,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681\/revisions\/27683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}