Al Jazeera:

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that his government was willing to resolve doubts about its atomic programme, ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump‘s arrival in office.

“As we have repeatedly proven our goodwill, we announce our readiness to cooperate and converge with this international organisation to resolve the alleged ambiguities and doubts about the peaceful nuclear activity of our country,” Pezeshkian told Rafael Grossi on Thursday.

Grossi said achieving “results” in nuclear talks with Iran was vital to avoid a new conflict in the region already inflamed by Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon.

His visit to the Iranian capital Tehran, comes just days after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Iran was “more exposed than ever to strikes on its nuclear facilities” giving Israel “the opportunity to achieve our most important goal”.

Grossi stressed that Iranian nuclear installations “should not be attacked”.

Earlier, the UN nuclear watchdog chief met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi who described their interaction as “important and straightforward” in a post on X.

Grossi told the Iranian officials that the UN watchdog wants to see “concrete, tangible and visible results” during discussions on Iran’s nuclear programme.

After the meeting, Araghchi – who served as Iran’s chief negotiator in the talks that led to a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers – said his country “has never left the negotiation table on its peaceful” nuclear programme.

“The ball is in the EU/E3 court,” Araghchi wrote, referring to the European Union, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

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