“The talks will continue. The date is not yet fixed. We need to digest the exchange of views from today,” Amano said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Vienna on June 8, following the IAEA talks with Iran.
“We expected that we could finalize a structured approach hopefully today, but if not today then hopefully in the near future.”
Amano further described his May 21 visit to Tehran as “positive” and said in his meeting with Iran’s chief negotiator Saeed Jalili the two sides “covered many fields.”
“He (Jalili) explained the basic position of Iran. We did not have the same view in many areas, but we had common ground, too. I sensed that the differences were very narrow.”
Referring to the IAEA’s November report on Iran’s nuclear energy program, Amano said, “What we did not say [was that] Iran had nuclear weapons. We never said such. We also did not say that Iran made a decision to obtain nuclear weapons. That we also did not say.”
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