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As the centrifuge spins: IAEA and Iran 'might' meet in August

The IAEA and Iran may meet to discuss the latter's nuclear program in August for the first time since Hassan Rohani was elected President of Iran.

If it does take place, the meeting will be scrutinized by the West for any sign of increased Iranian readiness to compromise in the decade-old international dispute over its nuclear program after the June 14 election of Hassan Rouhani.

A diplomat in Vienna, where the International Atomic Energy Agency is based, said he believed the aim was for an IAEA-Iran meeting in mid-August but that no decision had yet been taken.

"I think that no meeting in August would be a bad sign," another Western envoy said.

That would be shortly before the IAEA issues its next, quarterly report on Iran's nuclear program in late August and ahead of a week-long session of the UN agency's 35-nation governing board in September.

There's just one small problem: Rohani doesn't make the decisions regarding Iran's nuclear program. Ayatollah Ali Khameni does.

What could go wrong?

Labels: Ayatollah Ali Khameni, Hassan Rohani, IAEA, Iranian nuclear threat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:20 PM