British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced on Monday that he urged Iran to release all of its nationals who are being held arbitrarily and to return to nuclear talks in Vienna. In tweets on Twitter, the British minister indicated that his call to Iran came during a conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. It is noteworthy that relations between the two countries have strained in recent months over the case of British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari, who is detained in Iran.
#### Readiness to Resume Negotiations
In a related context, Iran announced on Monday that it is ready to resume the stalled nuclear negotiations in Vienna since June. Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stated, according to local media, that his country is prepared to resume the talks in the near future, hoping that participants will come to negotiations taking into account the realities on the ground. He also confirmed that talks held with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in Tehran yesterday were very positive. He explained, as reported by the Fars news agency, that his country "will maintain its relations with the agency as long as the latter upholds the non-political and non-discriminatory nature of its relations with the Iranian authorities."
#### Inspections in Days
It is worth mentioning that the IAEA announced yesterday that Tehran agreed to allow its international inspectors to access monitoring equipment at various Iranian sites within a few days and to ensure that they are functioning properly, as well as the possibility of replacing memory cards from surveillance devices and cameras placed in some designated nuclear facilities. Iranian authorities had begun to reduce the operations of the agency's inspectors in February 2021 after the expiration of the deadline set by the Parliament to lift the sanctions imposed by Washington following its unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement. However, the agency later reached a temporary "technical" agreement that allows for a limited continuation of monitoring steps that would have completely ceased under the Parliament's law.
