"The reality is that we are dealing with a very different Iran," he said. While stressing he wasn't involved in the political negotiations ongoing in Vienna, Grossi acknowledged the advances made by Iran since the deal's collapse meant there would have to be changes to the original agreement.
It also spins ever-more advanced centrifuges also barred by the deal. The nation's stockpile of enriched uranium grows every day far beyond the scope of the 2015 accord, which saw Tehran agree to limit its nuclear program in the exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. The deal limited enrichment to 3.67%, enough to be used in a power plant. Since the nuclear deal's collapse, Tehran has started enriching uranium up to 60% purity - a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Tehran has offered no evidence to support the claim, though it's another sign of the friction between inspectors and Iran. Grossi dismissed as "simply absurd" an Iranian allegation that saboteurs used the IAEA's cameras in the attack on the Karaj centrifuge site. "It will give you the illusion of the real image. what you have is a very blurred image," Grossi said. "If the international community through us, through the IAEA, is not seeing clearly how many centrifuges or what is the capacity that they may have.
Iran since has refused the IAEA access to replace cameras damaged in the incident. Tehran blamed the assault on Israel amid a widening regional shadow war since former President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Iran's landmark nuclear accord with world powers. That plant in Karaj came under what Iran describes as a sabotage attack in June.
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