Tehran/Vienna, June 25 -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said today that nuclear inspectors must return to Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as possible, even as Iran's parliament has passed a bill suspending cooperation with the nuclear watchdog.
Speaking to reporters at an Austrian cabinet meeting, Grossi said the focus should not be on how many months Iran's nuclear programme was set back, but on finding a lasting diplomatic solution.
"I don't like this hourglass approach - it's in the eye of the beholder," he said. "In any case, the technological knowledge is there, the industrial capacity is there - that no one can deny," Grossi added.
He said there is a real opportunity to resolve the nucle...