Grossi: The Harris administration will return to the JCPOA

According to RCO News Agency, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Wednesday evening, citing his sources: “According to the information I have, if Kamala Harris wins the US presidential election in November, she will return to the nuclear agreement.” Iran is ready.”

According to the Russian “Tass” News agency, Grossi added: “I have no information about the possible decision of the Republican government. “If the Republicans win, they will announce their position themselves, but we are in contact with the Harris administration and they want to return to some kind of nuclear agreement.”

In the American presidential election, which will be held on November 5th (November 15th), “Kamala Harris” the vice president of the United States and the candidate of the Democratic Party and “Donald Trump” the former president of the United States and the candidate of the Republican Party are in a tight and close competition.

According to the latest polls conducted in American opinion polling stations, the candidate of the Democratic Party is ahead of Trump by a small margin.

According to “Reuters” news agency, the poll of “N. B. C News, the results of which were published on Sunday, showed that Harris has a five percent advantage over Trump, and that voters’ positive opinion of Harris has increased since he entered the presidential race as the Democratic presidential candidate.

On the other hand, Grossi’s recent statements are while he recently told the Reuters news agency, referring to the results of his meetings with Iranian officials in New York, that he witnessed Iran’s willingness to interact with the IAEA for more targeted negotiations and the resumption of nuclear diplomacy between Iran and the partners of the agreement. Due to the inefficiency and infeasibility of the previous methods, a new method needs to be used.

Grossi met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and one of the chief negotiators of the 2015 nuclear agreement, who traveled to New York as part of Iran’s high-level delegation to participate in the UN General Assembly meeting.

Reuters news agency reported that Grossi said in an interview with this media: “What I see is an expression of desire to engage with us again in a more targeted way.”

Referring to the meetings of Iranian officials with their European counterparts and colleagues in the Atomic Energy Agency, Reuters wrote that despite the suspension of nuclear diplomacy following the Iranian presidential election and the upcoming US presidential election on November 5, Iranian and European officials met in New York to Test their mutual readiness to reduce tensions over Iran’s nuclear case and other claims against it, including the war in Ukraine and developments in the region.

Willingness to make quick and real progress in reviving technical negotiations with Iran

Grossi told Reuters he wanted to make real progress, quickly, on reviving technical talks with Iran and planned to travel to Tehran in October to meet with Iranian President Masoud al-Madijian.

He said: Of course we should be happy now because we are not going to start from scratch. We have gone through a rather long process in which some of our questions have not been answered.

Referring to the impact of Iran’s negotiations with the JCPOA partners on its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency stated: We must also coordinate our work with those who are waiting to see what happens with their other partners, first of all America. .

In order to revive the JCPOA, some preparations must be made now

Reuters further wrote that in response to a question about the prospect of revitalizing the nuclear agreement, Grossi said that for this it is necessary that some preparations be made now, especially for the IAEA to achieve the necessary visibility and transparency about Iran’s nuclear activities, because allegedly He, its cooperation with the agency has decreased.

He stated: I think we need or our goal should be to reach the result in a different way, because the previous method will not really be possible anymore.

In this context, Grossi predicted a more active role for the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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