(11 Aug 2025)
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Tehran, Iran – 11 August 2025
1. Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson arriving for regular briefing
2. Media
3. Pan right of briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"It’s a bit too early to predict what would be result of the talks, because the discussions are technical and complicated. As I’ve said before, we are in a unique situation.”
5. Wide of briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
“We will never accept any blockade of our border with Armenia, and such a thing has not happened at all. The claims about a 99-year lease and similar issues are baseless fabrications.”
7. Wide of briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
“In our view, this proposal is nothing more than a continuation of aggression and genocide in Gaza. We hope the international community takes decisive action to prevent the implementation of such an evil plan, and goes further by taking practical measures to stop the crimes and prosecute criminals.”
9. Mid of Baghaei
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
"No we don’t confirm such a thing." (answering a question on rumored upcoming talks with U.S in Oslo)
11. Wide of briefing
12. Baghaei leaving
STORYLINE:
Talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency will be “technical” and “complicated,” the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry said Monday ahead of a visit by the nuclear watchdog for the first time since Tehran cut ties with the organization last month.
Relations between the two soured after a 12-day air war was waged by Israel and the U.S in June, which saw key Iranian nuclear facilities bombed.
The IAEA board said on June 12 Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations, a day before Israel’s airstrikes over Iran that sparked the war.
The IAEA did not immediately issue a statement about the visit by the agency’s deputy head, which will not include any planned access to Iranian nuclear sites.
Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, told reporters there could be a meeting with Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi, but "It’s a bit too early to predict what would be result of the talks, because the discussions are technical and complicated."
Baghaei also criticized the IAEA’s position during the June war with Israel, saying the organisation had failed to condemn the strikes despite carrying out 24-hour monitoring of Iran’s nuclear facilities which he labelled as peaceful.
Aragchi had previously said that cooperation with the agency, which will now require approval by Iran’s highest security body, the Supreme National Security Council, would be about redefining how both sides cooperate.
The decision will likely further limit inspectors’ ability to track Tehran’s program that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels.
Retaliatory Iranian strikes killed 28 in Israel.
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