IAEA head ‘positively’ considering U.S. invitation to speak about Iran

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi on July 14 signed a roadmap in Vienna to resolve all the past and present outstanding issues related to Tehran’s nuclear energy program. Tom Cotton of Arkansas as an “international man of mystery” Thursday over the lawmaker’s claim to have uncovered a secret side deal of the Iranian nuclear accord while on a mission to Europe.

U.S. Republicans have objected to the deal as not tough enough to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon in the long run. The Obama administration says the agreement has accomplished its goal of preventing Tehran from getting such arms.

Some members of the US Congress have asked for more information to be made public on the IAEA’s role in verifying Iran’s implementation of the agreement.

Najafi, in a July 24 letter posted to the IAEA website on Wednesday, called Earnest’s statement “outrageous”.

He said members of Congress cannot accurately gauge the deal because the White House has not disclosed all of Iran’s side terms with the IAEA.

“Our emphasis during all of our sessions with the IAEA is that the agency considers our concerns regarding the confidentiality of the information and the agreements reached with this worldwide entity”, said Kamalvandi.

Talking to the press from the White House briefing room “is not part of my job description, but obviously it was a – I think, a fortuitous set of circumstances in the sense that this is an area in which I do have a lot of experience”, said Moniz, a nuclear physicist before joining the administration.

He further said the IAEA has not been fair to Iran in its reports so far. Behind closed doors, to take an example from yesterday, Obama told Democratic congressmen hearing him out on the deal that if they were to help override his veto of congressional disapproval of the deal, he would do everything in his power to undermine their disapproval.