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Iran will allow international inspectors to inspect nuclear facilities more closely.
This was announced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Iranian nuclear organization AEOI on Saturday evening.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi had previously held talks with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran.
However, details of the improved inspection mode still have to be clarified by both sides, the joint statement said.
IAEA experts recently found traces of uranium with a purity of 84 percent instead of the expected 60 percent in a nuclear facility in Fordow.
Since then, the IAEA has been trying to clarify whether Iran was deliberately enriching uranium just below the 90 percent enrichment level suitable for nuclear weapons, or whether it was an unintended peak, as Tehran argues.
Grossi had traveled to Iran to seek better access for IAEA inspectors and to address unresolved questions about suspected secret nuclear activities in the past.
In this context, Iran is ready to provide further information and to allow inspections, the statement said, which did not contain any further details.
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