The head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, will travel to Iran on Saturday in order to meet with officials there, the IAEA says.
“Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi will travel to Tehran for meetings with senior Iranian officials on Saturday,” an IAEA spokesman said in a statement, adding that Grossi would hold a press conference on his return to Vienna on Saturday evening.
Grossi’s visit comes as Western diplomats come ever nearer to reaching a new agreement with Iran that aims to restrain its nuclear program.
“We’re one minute from the finish line,” Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov said yesterday in Vienna.