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\nThe UN nuclear watchdog\u2019s head said on Wednesday that he \u201ccould not agree\u201d in talks with Iranian officials to resolve disputes over the monitoring of the country\u2019s atomic programme, a day after returning from Tehran.
\nRafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the quarterly meeting of the board of governors that his talks in Tehran were \u201cinconclusive\u201d, despite what he had earlier described as \u201cintense\u201d negotations.
\n\u201cWe could not agree yesterday, in spite of my best efforts,\u201d Grossi told reporters on Wednesday, shortly after addressing the board meeting.<\/p>\n
Among other officials in Tehran, he met Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.<\/p>\n
He had been hoping to make progress on several points of contention between the agency and Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VIENNA The UN nuclear watchdog\u2019s head said on Wednesday that he \u201ccould not agree\u201d in talks with Iranian officials to resolve disputes over the monitoring of the country\u2019s atomic programme, a day after returning from Tehran. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the quarterly meeting of the board of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n