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Iran Nuclear Talks and IAEA Agreement

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
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Iran Nuclear Talks and IAEA Agreement

JD Vance said Monday that Iran actually aGreed to let the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back into the country. It came after eighteen hours of intense talks, held up in Burgenstock, Switzerland. They also managed to sketch out a roadmap for a final deal, something they think is maybe sixty days away.

“The Iranians have aGreed to invite IAEA inspectors back,” Vance told reporters by the lake after the delegation, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, left the resort. He called it a major milestone. The first step toward ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program, he insisted.

Mediators Pakistan and Qatar said they managed to aGree on that roadmap. A deal within sixty days. Technical talks are still planned for the rest of the week there.

Vance mentioned other things came out of those discussions too. A mechanism to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. And a way to deconflict the regional ceasefire, mostly focused on that mess in Lebanon with Israel and Hezbollah.

“We laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal,” Vance said. “The final deal is the house. We set the foundation, we haven’t built the house.” It sounded like he was pushing for something tangible.

This whole move about the IAEA coming back into Iran really hits at what these talks were supposed to fix. Think about the nuclear stuff first. Before those June 2025 strikes, Iran had nearly 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to sixty percent. That’s the starting point. Only a tiny fraction maybe one percent of the extra enrichment work was left to get it to weapons-grade ninety percent material.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi had estimated that more than four hundred kilograms of that stuff was still locked up in the damaged facilities across Isfahan, Fordow, and Natanz. Inspectors had been shut out since everything got messy.

The initial US aim entering these talks was simple: get Iran to let IAEA inspectors check its nuclear sites for the very first time since the fighting started back in June of twenty-five.

Under the preliminary aGreement from last week, Iran is expected to start diluting that enriched uranium stockpile. They’ll do it on site, under the supervision of the IAEA. It sounds like a compromise they had to swallow.

Vance expects conversations with the inspectors about their return to kick off right away. He thinks that could happen by the end of this week at the very least. Or even sooner.

Meanwhile, Grossi was there too. He met with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis. They talked about recent developments regarding Iran. The path ahead. And how important the IAEA role is in this whole situation. “At this critical moment,” Grossi said, “it’s important to give diplomacy every opportunity to succeed.”

The lead-up to these talks was rough though. There were a lot of delays. Friction over the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel kept things stalled. Swiss, Qatari, and Pakistani officials all jumped in, trying to get both sides back at the table.

Iran had aGreed to stop fighting immediately last week. But that broader sixty-day track was meant to cover missile programs, nuclear enrichment limits, and a structured end to US sanctions. It’s a huge package they were trying to manage.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei eventually gave the Green light for the negotiations to keep going, according to the political deputy in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. But that wasn't without pushback at home. Hossein Shariatmadari, an editor at the Kayhan newspaper, called on Iran’s team to walk out and humiliate Donald Trump instead of sticking around.

And just Monday? The central bank governor said something about blocked Iranian assets. He suggested those blocks would start gradually in the coming days. It implies that some parts of the economic provisions in that MOU are already starting to move, even as the sixty-day clock ticks down. It’s messy, you know?

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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