The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Tehran on Saturday, the agency confirmed on Thursday, raising the prospect of progress on one of the last thorny issues blocking a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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The visit by the UN nuclear watchdog's director-general was reported overnight by the Nournews news agency affiliated with Iran's top security body as negotiators in Vienna seek to restore US and Iranian compliance with the deal.
"Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi will travel to Tehran for meetings with senior Iranian officials on Saturday. They will discuss outstanding safeguards issues with a view to addressing them," the IAEA said in a statement.
A key sticking point in the talks is that Tehran wants to close the issue of uranium traces found at several old but undeclared sites in Iran even though Western powers say that is a separate issue to the deal, which the IAEA is not a party to, several officials have told Reuters.
