DUBAI: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Iran had agreed to nuclear inspections into “infinity, despite Tehran’s denials, and that unfrozen Iranian assets would be used to buy humanitarian supplies from the United States.
Washington agreed to waive sanctions on Iran for 60 days from Monday after the first round of talks under a nascent peace deal agreed last week on ending more than three months of war.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the talks with Iranian officials in the Swiss mountain resort of Buergenstock laid a good foundation for a final accord and that Tehran had agreed to allow nuclear inspectors back into the country.
But Iran denied it had begun discussions on its nuclear program at the talks, mediated by Qatar and Pakistan, and said it had not agreed to invite back International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
IRAN SAYS IT WILL DECIDE ALONE
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Tuesday Iranian officials had not held a meeting with IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in Switzerland and had no plans for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to inspect Iran’s damaged nuclear facilities.
Trump hit back on Tuesday at what he said were Iran’s “protestations and false statements.”
“Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!),” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.He also said any Iranian assets unfrozen under the deal would be placed in an escrow account and used to buy food and medical supplies from the U.S. “including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American Farmers.”
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva had earlier on Tuesday denied there had been any such agreement.
“Iran is the only country to decide what to do with its assets, which are going to be defrozen, and so I reject any claim about that if there would be any role for any other country to have an influence on those decisions or on those processes,” Ali Bahreini told reporters.–Reuters
