Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) speaks at the 66th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria Sept 26, 2022. Eslami said on Feb 22, 2023 the officials of the IAEA are in Tehran and have been inspecting the country's nuclear facilities since Feb 21, 2023 to resolve the ambiguities. (PHOTO / AP)

TEHRAN – The Iranian nuclear chief said on Wednesday the officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are in Tehran and have been inspecting the country's nuclear facilities since Tuesday to resolve the ambiguities.
Mohammad Eslami, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), made the remarks to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting, noting Tehran is continuing its cooperation and relations with the IAEA within the framework of the safeguards agreements, according to Iranian Students' News Agency.

Answering a question about the claim in a recent Bloomberg report that "Iran is enriching uranium to levels above 60 percent," Mohammad Eslami, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, noted that it was due to a misperception by one of the inspectors

Answering a question about the claim in a recent Bloomberg report that "Iran is enriching uranium to levels above 60 percent," Eslami noted that it was due to a misperception by one of the inspectors.

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He said Iran is always careful to prevent any new ambiguity in the process of cooperation with the IAEA.
Turning to a 2015 nuclear deal, Eslami said the agreement was a contract between Iran and the P5+1 based on efforts to build mutual trust, adding that it is quite "unacceptable" to Iran that a political pressure campaign would seek to force Tehran into fulfilling its commitments one-sidedly while others are not honoring theirs.
Bloomberg's Sunday report cited two senior diplomats as claiming that IAEA inspectors in Iran last week detected uranium enriched to 84 percent purity, "just 6 percent below that needed for a nuclear weapon."
On Sunday, Iranian official news agency IRNA quoted the AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi as saying that the Bloomberg report was a "distortion of the facts" and part of a smear campaign.

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Over the past few months, the IAEA has criticized Iran for its lack of cooperation with the agency. On Nov 17, 2022, the IAEA's Board of Governors passed a resolution proposed by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany that called on Iran to collaborate with the agency's investigators regarding the alleged "traces of uranium" at a number of its "undeclared" sites.
Iran has repeatedly rejected such allegations.