 Thank you very much Frederick. It's good to see you some some of you. I saw yesterday and it's good to see you again so As I said last night We had a very constructive trip to Tehran and there is An agreement that we have now on important matters relating to the Equipment and the continuity of knowledge that we will be establishing through it But I would love to tell more about it through the lens of your own questions. So Without further ado, I am at your disposal. Thank you very much Francois Murphy from Royto's Hi DG since we're lucky enough to have you two days in a row. I thought we'd try and Try and pin you down on some things that were left a bit open yesterday first of all on So it's clear that you're Going to meet mr. Islami on the sidelines of the general conference But then on the on the return leg on your trip to Tehran that you hope to have I'm just wondering Do you have a clearer commitment than what was in your statement about when you're going to go to Tehran and who you will meet there? and Also on the issue of the The centrifuge workshop where your cameras were destroyed damaged, etc. So you have there's missing footage from one of those cameras Can you tell us Whether you how how you're going to go about recovering that missing footage. Do you have any specific commitment from Iran on that? Thank you very much Regarding the the first part and the upcoming The next meetings with the Iranian Government and officials Like as you say is correct the new head of the AOI Mr. Islami will be coming to Vienna next week and We are going to meet On that occasion and as agreed in Tehran. I'm going to be coming to returning to Tehran very soon The exact date has still must still be precise But it's the idea is that it is quite soon. So Naturally after Mr. Islam is visit here, but but very soon very soon And as as it was said, you know for politeness sake, I Shouldn't be saying I will be seeing XY. It is clear that it's high-level talks with the Government of Iran so that does not leave much room for speculation. It's going to be a very high level Which is needed not for the sake of being you know seeing You know the top of the government is because In my assessment Precisely because it is a new I said it in Tehran It's a new government. It's a government that has very firm ideas on these issues So I think it's essential that we get to know each other and that we listen to each other So I hope this to happen very soon regarding the second part We are going we are going to be We had a first opportunity to look into the Equipment in garage as you know, this has been reflected in one of my reports So we have a pretty good idea of what we have there and we satisfied that the the Iranian side has Indicated that a technical level. They are going to be exchanging information with our teams so that we can Perform all the activities that need to be performed We still need to see The degree of of gap that there may be but as you know, there are redundancies and there are ways to reconstruct The information of course Thanks, DG. Hello Jonathan Tyrone Bloomberg One very brief question. Can you give us an update on the online? enrichment Monitoring mechanisms the Olem the yes. Yeah Are they still installed and not working or or have they been removed entirely? Okay, and then the second question is relative to the physical inventory verification paragraph 81 of the Info Cirque 531 States that depending on the chemical composition and whether uranium is enriched to higher low levels that the frequency of PIVs can be increased. So you've been you've reported now two consecutive Reports that you're unable to verify the stockpile of Fissile material Why haven't you increased the number of PIVs because that clearly falls under the CSA? Well, I must tell you that when it comes to the type and the intensity of The activities we carry out in a country not only in Iran in any country We I decide on the basis of the advice of the deputy director general and his technical team how we I would say distribute our Resources and our intensities and of course this is not a matter that we discuss in public But I can tell you that we always go for the best point in the curve The one that is going to give us the maximum return in terms of information This is Something that it is invariable. So if it's how many PIVs or how many types of this is a matter of a technical judgment That the inspectors tell me about and then we decide I'm sorry, but I mean Iran is the only non nuclear weapons state in the NPT that You know is enriching to 60% levels of purity indeed I mean many times and and and and I mean the CSA clearly allows you to increase the number of physical inventory verification visits, and I'm just simply asking what why why you're still unable to Verify the amount of fissile material if you have the capacity to do that We are exercising as our capacities to the maximum, but as I say our capacities are not concentrated on a single Instrument for verification. Okay. Thanks. Thank you Rahida Bahnam from Al Arabiya. Sorry. Sorry. Hello. Hi When you were in Tehran, you said that you received new promises from Iran when you were in Tehran yesterday Yes, you said you received new promises from Iran to cooperate When it comes to the particles the IAA found in secret locations You have been receiving those promises for nearly two years now Has there been anything new to build on or do you not feel that you now need maybe a tougher approach? Push towards a board of governors resolution in order to get Iran to cooperate Because these are the same promises you've been receiving with no results no different results Well, first of all, thank you for a question. First of all, I did not receive any promise What I Said to them and I think it was very clear is that Given the seriousness of the situation and I think I have described it described it very clearly in my reports What I think or what I assess about the situation and what has been happening For the past couple of years or even more in some cases. It's it's well described there So I was not seeking in this trip promises what I Said there and I said it to you and I continue to say it is that I need To have a clear conversation with a new government about this precisely to a certain extent to what You are mentioning the fact that we have been trying in different ways to have a more vocalized effort having a compartmentalized Analysis of each one of the situations and for the time being we have not received the kind of Feedback that we need so at this point in time with a new government and as you know with the government that has quite firm views on matters related to The nuclear program their past the present and the future I as director general need to sit down with them tell them how I see the whole picture and Tell also what I expect from them and to hear from them as well So I did not get any promises one thing I got is the agreement that this Is something that needs to be done and this is why I hope to be very soon in Tehran to have this type of Conversation which is which is badly needed For a tougher approach. You don't see that it's necessary to take a tougher approach Well tougher or less tough is in the eye of the beholder What I can tell you is that from day one I have had an approach with Iran which is firm and fair So they have every opportunity to respond They have every opportunity to collaborate with us, but we have been exposing and putting on the table every Information that we have we have sought Clarification and we have characterized the cooperation or like they are off in terms that Leave no room for speculation So I believe that the record of what we have been doing speaks for itself in terms of the I would say seriousness of the Approach tough less tough. This is for analysts to to evaluate or for member states. We do our job Hello, did you know just in the carer from Agence France press good to see Just two questions. Yes, I may and You were referring just now to the new government and the talks that you hope to have I think you were possibly alluding to the fact that you know the administration of race is widely seen as being more hard-line more conservative than that of The outgoing president or honey What would you say to those people who say there's not really much point in waiting for the new government to sort of find its Feet and you know, you're not going to get a more positive more helpful response on these issues given their standpoint and secondly regarding the equipment and I mean am I right in thinking that For at least some of this the IEA normally has real-time access to the footage So therefore Given the amount of time that's elapsed. How long is it going to take you? Do you have an estimate of how long it would take you to get back to speed as it were to to go through all this footage and Evaluate it's I mean Well, yeah, yeah, I take but let me start with this part, which is more technical Than the first part of the question, which was more political in this regard what I would say is that we have to remember that the the System that we have in place for this monitoring activities is Singular I would say and it was decided and it was adopted and it Started as a result of one of my visits to Tehran back in February when it was announced by the government that a number of Accesses and verification activities would cease as a result of a law So we came up with a proposal and we set up this system, which is a system that has certain Limitations as well as I have explained in the past. It has certain limitations It gives us the I would say the advantage of the continuity of the monitoring registering taping having all these Stats images and information, but we are not making the assessment now. This is very important We are not evaluating now as we speak what's happening. This is like an Iow you It's it's it's a document is a bank document that we are going to be able to cash when there is an agreement on the JCPOA level because This is a system that allows for things that would not normally be allowed Beyond the SCSA. So it's a very delicate line Which but it's working. It's a practical It's a practical thing that is working and I was glad to see yesterday that the government And the new head of the EOI agreed that for it to be Real for it to be effective Well, we have to do all these technical servicing and so on and this is why I spoke about a communication breakdown Because we were talking to them telling them well every every such time every three months or every we need to service it We need to check The batteries we need to change the memory etc. So this was this was done so once we we are assured that the Storage of information the flow of information is continuing Then we can say well, we will have the raw material for at the right time Engage in that exercise that you were describing of making the the assessment So this is one thing and they and for the first part You were saying what would you would you say to them? Well what I said yesterday, of course in more detail But basically that we need to engage these things are not going away We cannot wish them away. They are there. They are well known and We need to address them together Iran and the agency so The the point of having this conversation is to to get an understanding of how they Intend to go about it and we of course we are always As it should be because we are the technical organization. We are always going to be proposing technical ways To to to get there and this is what we are going to be working on Sorry, just a just a very quick follow-up from it So if I can just press you a little bit more on when you come to that point Yeah, caching the IOU as you put it. Yeah, how difficult will it be for you to to catch up to go through? Well, it is it is something that has to a certain extent never been done before but it's not something that is beyond the capacity of my technical teams It can be done. They have a unique expertise and a knowledge about the program about the machines the way they operate Under different kinds of circumstances. We have a mass of Statistical information against which we can a certain whether through a certain period of time It is normal to have such a volume or not So the the the the mass of information analytical information we have is huge So we can do it. No doubt about it Yeah, hello, it's Hana Kaviani from Radio Fargo. Nice to see you. Hello. I have two questions Yes, one is about what you said last night that about the servicing and memory cards You said it's happening in a few days very soon Iranians are reporting Iranian media is reporting that that is Very much dependent on what's gonna happen at the board of Governors meeting if that is going to be any relations in your Opinion about between the two if there would be a resolution against Iran if still your agreement stands And the second question I have is about you mentioned incident Which happened in Karaj facility? I want to know if you know the nature of this incident and this so-called Incidents how in general it impacts your work and the monitoring work of IAA inspectors in Iran Yes, well on the first part Regarding what may or may not happen at the board I think it is normal that there is this type of speculation, but as you saw Nowhere in the joint statement that I agreed to with the doctor Islamic he said that all of this is valid unless There is a resolution at the board of Governors or only if there is no resolution So the two things are not You know one is not contingent To the to the other So this is one one point second on on the Events that took place in in Karaj. It is not for me to characterize them It's for the authorities of Iran and I understand that is an investigator's an ongoing Investigation about that and I would say that in terms of how it affects well as you you can see how it affects it Our equipment was destroyed So it's not good in that sense and in general Any violent event is not good if there was violence there So what we did is we do our technical work we concentrate on our equipment. What was there? How is it? Was it affected? Is there anything missing and this is some of it I informed in the report and some some of it We are still assessing and we will be doing the assessment and at the same time. We will be replacing What has been damaged? Hi, this is Jordy from FM. Nice to see you today My impression is that somehow you're like in a transition phase because the new Government in Iran there's new experts new people negotiating with you. How long can this go on like this? I mean, is it a question of weeks or months until your both sides have met each other several times and sufficiently? So that you can work again together. Is it what do you think? I mean how many more well, yes, it's a very pertinent question and this is why I was so intent in on having a clear agreement on their part to have High-level discussion because we cannot continue to go on in this way the the issue is an issue of of the highest important Importance for Iran and for the world. So it is obvious that as a director general I have to have this conversation when you say what is the time? I hope it's a matter of days Not months certainly It's it's days in one week The head of the AOI will be here and soon thereafter I will be traveling to Iran and and we will take it from there We will be discussing after that happens Jordy Hello, hello homo leski from press TV. Yes Concerning this agreement or arrangement that you had with Tehran and you talked about it last night as well Can you tell us how long this arrangement has been extended for first? We had the three months that an extra month at this time Is it just no specific time frame and you did also mention that when the JCP is restored Of course, you'll have the assessment, but what happens if the JCP is not revived It has there been a decision on that will Iran destroy the data Have you talked about that or is that something you want to discuss later? Thank you Thank you very much You may have seen that this issue of the length has not been addressed and the the fact is that we Having discussed this we agreed that it is better and more practical to go about it as developments evolve You rightly mentioned that at the basis the philosophy of this Idea this joint endeavor that we have With with Iran is that it is a stop cap as I said last night. It is a breach To give us some monitoring and verification capacity Until there is something hopefully better Which would be going back to all the additional transparency measures as And this is in the JCP away if this doesn't happen Well, then I will again yet again unlike the situation in the past I will have to discuss this with the new government because the previous government had a different take on this They wanted to have a more tabulated sort of and extend the IOU for Periods of time in the end that led us to a situation where we we ended up in limbo I think that did not help either Iran or the IAEA So with with miss with dr. Islamic we decided to take a practical approach We are an agreement that this is what we're going to do now. We are doing it And then we will be seeing how things evolve. Hopefully for the better Hello DG That's going on keep from the television. How are you? The I have two questions one is on DPRK So I just want to first start with that Iran. Yes, please The I Iran has started enriching up to 60 percent that is a completely a different level from the what we had before and In a countries like Japan as well like any countries who has advanced enrichment program is under a very Strong scrutiny and just normal circumstances with or without JCPOA So, do you think that you might or IAEA might want to sort of reframe the whole activities of the Verifications in light of this new development because I think that the cameras Real-time assessment is part of the normal verification under the Normal verification system in my view and Iran is not doing it at the moment because Iran is blocking you To having an access to all the data, of course that sort of is not just a 60 percent part But it's sort of like where the rotor is created, but all the I think IAEA should have the whole view of the enrichment program in light of this new So would that sort of be back of your mind and would that be sort of considered to be discussed When you meet the new government, that's the question number one And I would withhold because the second one regards to the DPRK. Thank you. Well, it's thank you It's very interesting, but it's a bit too speculative. We don't we don't do respect because what you're telling me is, you know, and I won't repeat all that you said but It's it's full of ifs ifs ifs. So at the moment, we have a system Which perhaps I can bring bring zest of precision to what you said in that what we do It's not only what is a part of a normal comprehensive safeguards agreement. We have a number of Activities that are part of what we have been discussing for the last half hour or so so Different activities that take place in agreement with with with them. So there is this this Separate layer that is that is there Then that scenario we should see my hope is that we will get back to a Higher level of transparency because I would agree with you that with these levels often for off and not only Enrichment with this level with this breadth of activities Which are legitimate? At the same time they require a commensurate commensurate verification and inspection presence so This will be something that we will see as the story unfolds unfortunately So I wouldn't like to speculate on what could be done in very precise terms But I would be happy to continue a conversation with you when this happens The second question is on DPRK. Yes, we do appreciate your issue in the report every year this year I have After having read it I have a feeling that the DPRK activities apart from not testing is really back Before the Singapore agreement meaning that they're doing the reprocessing and you're starting the firing up the the nuclear The reactor once again to get that spent fuel. So what is your assessment on this? That are they back before that level or do you even say that they are actually Excalating well, I would say that the reports are clear in indicating that we see Many activities ongoing and different sides. So Having a as a point of reference The level of activities before the summit meeting Between the then president of the United States and the leader I don't think that is a metric that would help much Because as you know, we don't have an on-site presence our inspectors have been Barred from the country and expelled back in 2009. We do have a pretty good Impression of what is going on Through different beans but to go to that level of granularity It would not be helpful What is clear is that this program is continuing Contrary to the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and it's growing and this is clear Thank you. I am Ahmad Samadi from Iran international. Hello. I have two questions. Yes You told you will travel to Tehran very soon. It does any confirm date or it will be And second question is resolutions before the IAA board of governors Keep being put on hold in order to preserve the diplomacy to revive the nuclear deal and In the process Iran's outstanding safeguards issues remains Unresolved you told today in your opening speech. Are you concerned? This is undermining the IAA's missions and the NPT Thank you. Well, I said in my report that I'm concerned and that our activities are being undermined because of this situation I would not extend that affirmation to the NPT, but I would certainly say that we need to redress This situation And we have to tackle it as soon as possible. Yes Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Sorry. I have another question in your opening remarks Today to the board of governor. You said that the lack of process and clarifying the agency's questions concerning the correctness and completeness of Iran's safeguard declaration Seriously affects the ability of the agency to provide assurance of the peaceful nature of Iran nuclear program Does that mean that at the moment you cannot provide assurances that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful? Well, what that means is what is said in the report that means that when there are questions And there are there is information that may indicate that there have been activities not reported and There has been material not reported then the logical conclusion of these two simple affirmations Is that there is a question mark around past declarations? And it is in this sense that we are saying that the completeness and the correctness of The declarations could be put into question. So this is why we believe that it this is an additional Reason why we must say that we we are going to clarify this Otherwise, we cannot give a complete assurance that everything is in order. There is Indication Scientifically proven that there has been material in places that were not declared. What do we do about that? It's a very simple question and this is the question. I want to repeat through the new government And I hope I will be getting some answers Hello, DG Marcus Eagle from the Nikkei. Hello. I just wanted to ask a short Qualification regarding the agreement you reached yesterday in Tehran Can this be seen the factor as an extension of the technical understanding you reach in February which ran out earlier The summer or is this technical understanding still in limbo as of now? Thank you. No, it cannot be seen as an extension Because the the government decided that they didn't want to and already also the previous government in its last Days that they didn't want to go through a formal extension of the of the of the previous one But we have an operational sort of Modus vivendi if you want whereby we continue to perform these activities and we are even able to rectify situations where these activities are Affected or interrupted in some way as it was the case. Thank you. Sorry two more questions for it First of all you said last night that The agreement you've reached with the Iranians is aimed at allowing time for diplomacy and at several points over the past year you've talked about how you know as far as the JCPOA is concerned You can't simply go back to square one because square one isn't there anymore, right? so this idea that there is this constantly evolving reality on the ground in Iran and Several countries on the board have also expressed concern about the issue of irreversible knowledge gain So I'm simply wondering if from your point of view there is a limit to this time for diplomacy It's there a point at which it's no longer realistic to actually reach an agreement to go back to the JCPOA in some way shape or form And a completely different issue In your JCPOA report You mentioned the fact that Iran has completed the I think fourth step in the process of producing Iranian metals the last step But you also say that what they produced isn't suitable for the stated purpose, which is for use in the Tehran research reactor So what happened there? Is that a bad batch and is it use is it usable for something else? So, you know what what happened there? Yeah on this one, which is the more technical. I would say we explain that It's been used to produce silicide for fuel plates for the for the for the TRR There have been some technical glitches as it's something that may happen Especially when you are getting into such a sophisticated area as working with really metal so there have been some issues, but they have addressed them and The understanding I have from my technical advisors is that this is proceeding So this is moving the first question You know, I always like to answer every question, but I think this is not a question for me You know for how How long can can can you know I'm a diplomat and I believe diplomacy is always possible and it's the best way to address problems Oh, of course. Yes, please I just had two clarifications. Sorry The first clarification as you mentioned that any violent event is not good I'm just clarifying does that apply for just Karaj or for the other Kinetic events including the assassinations and the sabotages and the tons that have occurred in Iran I mean, are you condemning any kind of sabotage or violent event in Iran against its nuclear facilities? categorically, I Think we haven't been discussing this Jonathan, but of course as a as a you know head of an international organization We always condemn violence I mean, there is no question that we would endorse violence and then the point was about Karaj Yeah, and whether the fact that some of the cameras that we have installed there Where damage was affecting our work and I said to the lady that if course it has affected, right? And then exactly on this issue of cameras I think there's a great misunderstanding about the kinds of monitoring that was cut off in February That affected the additional protocol and the extra a JCPOA measures so at The centrifuge workshops the uranium mining facilities heavy water You do have cameras still installed and access to at places like in the tons and for though Is that does that not correct? We do right? And so how often actually are you going into for though and the tons and checking those cameras and getting the Footage and bringing it back as as often as is required Okay, so can you do you know how many how many cameras more or less you have access to right now in Iran? Is it like a dozens? It's we have access to many cameras the amount that we need. Okay. Thank you very much Thank you very much, and I wish you a nice afternoon. Thank you