(25 Jun 2025)
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Vienna – 25 June 2025
1. Wide of politicians arriving for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, IAEA director general:
"I had received a letter from the Iranian foreign minister saying that they have taken protective measures already. They did not get into details into what that meant, but clearly that was the implicit meaning of that. So, we can imagine that this material is there. So, for that to confirm for the whole situation, to evaluate, we need to return."
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, IAEA director general:
"You know, this hour glass approach is something I never liked. You remember the 45 minutes, the one hour, the three hours, the three months is not my cup of tea, so to say. And it’s in the eye of the beholder. Because when you look at the “Wiederaufbau”, the reconstruction of the infrastructure. It’s not impossible. First, there has been some that survived the attacks and then this is work that Iran knows how to do. It would take some time."
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, IAEA director general:
"This would be, of course, very regrettable. I hope this is not the case. I don’t think this would help anybody, starting with Iran. This would lead to isolation, all sorts of problems. And why not? Perhaps, if not the unravelling, a very, very, very serious erosion in the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) structure."
7. Wide of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Grossi, IAEA director general:
"Hard words and emotions are of course, perhaps, normal or if not normal inevitable in times of war. But we are working for diplomacy. We are working for a solution that (is) really sustainable."
9. Wide of Grossi and Austrian government members leaving
STORYLINE:
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said Sunday that his inspectors need to return to Iran to re-assess the country’s nuclear capabilities after American strikes.
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, declined to offer an assessment of a report that strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites only set back Iran’s atomic program a few months.
But he suggested that Tehran could rebuild the infrastructure during a news conference in Vienna.
Some of the infrastructure has survived the attacks and “the reconstruction of the infrastructure is not impossible,” said Grossi, after meeting with senior Austrian officials Wednesday. “This is work that Iran knows how to do. It would take some time."
“We need to return,” he said. “We need to engage.”
He didn’t address criticism of the IAEA by Iran.
Asked about the possibility of Iran opting out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Grossi said that would be “very regrettable."
Grossi also added that “We are working for diplomacy. We are working for a solution that (is) really sustainable.”
Iran has insisted that it will not give up its nuclear program and in a vote underscoring the tough path ahead, Iranian parliament agreed to fast-track a proposal that would effectively stop the country’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ahead of the vote, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf criticized the IAEA for having “refused to even pretend to condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities” that were carried out by the United States on Sunday.
Grossi didn’t address criticism of the IAEA by Iran during the news conference.
AP video by Philipp Jenne
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