Trump Claims Iran Accepted IAEA Inspections as Tehran Denies Any New Commitments

3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Jun 22

JD Vance said weekend talks in Switzerland produced an agreement for Iran to allow major nuclear inspections, and Trump later called it a first step toward permanently ending an Iranian weapons program.
Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, rejected that account, saying Tehran had made no new commitments even as U.S. officials urged reporters to discount Iranian public messaging.
Since U.S. strikes hit three key Iranian nuclear sites in June last year, the IAEA has not inspected those facilities, though it did conduct a routine visit to an Iranian nuclear power plant earlier this month.
The dispute lands inside a 60-day U.S.-Iran negotiating window set by last week’s truce memorandum, with Washington already issuing a 60-day oil license tied to inspections and open transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
Traffic through Hormuz remains a wider test of the deal: Windward counted 25 vessels in a 12-hour period ending Monday morning, versus roughly 100-130 ships on a normal prewar day.