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(24 May 2021) Iran and the UN's nuclear watchdog on Monday agreed to a one-month extension to a deal on surveillance cameras at Tehran's atomic sites, buying more time for ongoing negotiations seeking to save the country's tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director General Rafael Grossi admitted that the situation was "not ideal".
He told journalists in Vienna that it was "like an emergency device that we came up with in order for us to continue having these monitoring activities."
Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's representative to the IAEA, acknowledged the deal at the same time on Twitter.
"We recommend the negotiating countries to seize the extra opportunity provided by Iran in good faith for the complete lifting of sanctions in a practical and verifiable manner," Gharibabadi wrote.
Under a confidential agreement called an "Additional Protocol" with Iran, the IAEA collects and analyzes images from a series of surveillance cameras installed at Iranian nuclear sites.
Those cameras helped it monitor Tehran's program to see if it is complying with the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran's hard-line parliament in December approved a bill that would suspend part of UN inspections of its nuclear facilities if European signatories did not provide relief from oil and banking sanctions by February.
The IAEA then struck a three-month deal with Iran in February to have it hold the surveillance images, with Tehran threatening to delete them afterward if no deal had been reached.
Iran since has broken all the deal's limits after then-President Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew America from the accord.
Negotiations continue in Vienna to see if both the US and Iran can re-enter the deal, which limited Tehran's enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

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