According to IAEA chairman Rafael Grossi, Iran’s nuclear programme is “galloping ahead” and the agency has very little visibility into what is happening.
Iran started dismantling the agency’s monitoring tools, which were established as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement with international powers, in June.
Grossi said at the time that the United States’ withdrawal from the agreement in 2018 could be a “fatal blow” to efforts to revive it.
“The simple fact is that I have had extremely restricted vision for about five weeks due to a nuclear programme that is racing ahead and, therefore, if there is an agreement.
Before the IAEA lost the ability to put together Iran’s most significant nuclear operations, Grossi had stated in June that there was only a window of three to four weeks to reinstate at least some of the surveillance that was being discarded.
