Access to damaged facilities will only be discussed as part of a final agreement and after all sanctions are lifted.

On Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Garibabadi reiterated that Iran does not plan to allow inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the nuclear facilities that were attacked.

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“No meeting was held in Switzerland with Rafael Grossi, despite the request submitted by the IAEA director. There is also no plan to allow access to the facilities that were targeted in the attacks or to the nuclear material,” Garibabadi said.

The Perssian diplomat, who took part in the high-level negotiations with the United States held Sunday and later led the Iranian delegation in the technical talks on Monday, also said that any discussion regarding inspections and other matters related to the nuclear program would only be addressed within the framework of a final agreement and once the other side takes concrete measures to lift all sanctions.

“They cannot move forward with a policy of creating faits accomplis through media noise,” Garibabadi added in an apparent reference to statements made by U.S. President Donald Trump and Grossi.

Trump: We’re leaving Iran with no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft . no missile capability, no nuclear program, no nuclear capacity, and they’ve agreed to that, and we’re getting along quite well pic.twitter.com/Fw0pEx3sKD

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On Tuesday, the U.S. president said that Iran had accepted the presence of IAEA inspectors and stated that he was “100%” certain the inspections would take place. He also warned that negotiations would immediately collapse if Iran rejected that oversight.

Although Grossi did not provide dates, he said inspections in Iran would begin “soon” and stressed that they “must take place” with the cooperation of the Iranian government.

Those statements came hours after Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bagaei said there were no plans for the IAEA to inspect the nuclear facilities at Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz, which were attacked by the United States and Israel in June 2025.

Following that attack, Tehran restricted access for inspectors from the U.N. nuclear agency to the targeted sites, insisting that no protocol exists for inspecting damaged nuclear facilities. In addition, the whereabouts of about 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% — a level close to that required for nuclear weapons production — remain unknown.

However, inspectors have had access to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which generates electricity under Russian supervision, and to the Tehran Research Reactor. Iran and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding last week to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war, and they are now holding negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.

The speaker of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stated that U.S. threats have no effect on Iran and that no matter what the U.S. government says, it is the Iranians who take action.#Iran #UnitedStates #teleSUREnglish pic.twitter.com/kDJzaCd4wd

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