Iran has agreed to allow the UN’s nuclear watchdog access to surveillance cameras inside its atomic facilities in a largely symbolic move that offers some hope that Tehran’s new regime is open to a compromise deal with western powers.
The agreement, struck during a visit to Tehran by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, may buy diplomats more time to make progress in talks with the Islamic Republic, by averting a move by IAEA governors to formally censure Iran at a meeting this week.
A 2015 agreement between Iran and western powers to lift economic sanctions on the country in exchange for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear programme collapsed after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the pact in 2018.