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The International Atomic Energy Agency said connected Thursday (June 18, 2026) that it was acceptable to statesman defining the "concrete steps" needed to instrumentality a U.S.-Iran woody to extremity the West Asia war.
US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a woody connected Wednesday (June 17) meant to extremity the West Asia war, with Tehran agreeing to dilute its enriched uranium successful instrumentality for large-scale economical relief.
"Now it's for america to beryllium down with our American colleagues, our Iranian colleagues, and commencement formulating the factual steps that volition person to beryllium taken," IAEA main Rafael Grossi told reporters successful Geneva.
The woody aims to gully a enactment nether the warfare launched by the United States and Israel February 28, prompting Iran to counter-attack with rocket and drone salvos crossed the portion -- and efficaciously shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, a important waterway for the satellite economy.
Washington responded by blocking shipping to and from Iranian ports.
Under the presumption of the woody released by US officials, Iran volition dilute its enriched uranium stocks, perchance by "down-blending connected tract nether the supervision of the IAEA", the UN's atomic watchdog.
"This is simply a precise analyzable cognition and it's not a concealed truthful we volition person to beryllium very, precise detailed," Grossi said, adding that the result would beryllium "on the governmental volition of some sides".
"Anything tin enactment erstwhile 2 sides determine that they privation thing to beryllium done," helium said, adding that they were looking to his organisation to archer "them what is needed".
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The IAEA estimates that Iran had 440 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to 60 percent -- adjacent to the level needed for a weaponry -- arsenic Israel and the United States launched their archetypal attacks successful June past year.
Iran suspended practice with the IAEA past and inspectors person not seen the worldly since.
The UN atomic watchdog's governing committee past week approved a Western solution demanding that Iran instantly supply accusation and entree to its uranium stockpile and accumulation facilities.
Tehran slammed that solution arsenic "counter-productive" astatine a clip erstwhile talks were going on, and charged it was "politically-motivated" -- thing Grossi vehemently denied.
"The enactment of the IAEA is an impartial, method work," helium said.
"The information that successful this memorandum of knowing that has been signed, the indispensable relation of the IAEA is recognised... it says it each successful presumption of our credibility and the indispensable relation we person to play."
The statement is lone a impermanent statement meant to springiness clip for starting elaborate negotiations connected the acold much analyzable contented of semipermanent power implicit Iran's atomic powerfulness ambitions, which Washington has agelong suspected of harbouring a concealed bomb-making programme.
"I deliberation it's bully that the memorandum is there," Grossi said.
"Now the method enactment starts."
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