Iran, Larijani: 'IAA will be allowed to inspect our nuclear sites'. Pasdaran exercises in Strait of Hormuz

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, announced that 'to prove that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, we will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect our nuclear sites, including those located underground and in the mountains'. The inspections can be conducted monthly or even daily, so that inspectors can identify any suspicious activity," he said.

Larijani makes another point about missiles, in an interview with al-Jazeera: 'The missile issue concerns Iran's national security and we will not negotiate on this. "Negotiations must be fair, meaningful and free of delaying tactics," he added as Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Geneva, where talks with the US on Tehran's nuclear programme will be held tomorrow. Adding the Iranian diplomatic chief: "Submission to threats is not on the table", today in Geneva "together with nuclear experts, I will meet Rafael Mariano Grossi", the director general of the IAEA. It will be "an in-depth technical discussion", stressed Araghchi.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi confirmed this today, saying he had held a meeting with Minister Araghchi to coordinate technical issues ahead of the important Geneva talks on 17 February. 'I have just concluded in-depth technical talks with the Iranian foreign minister in preparation for the important negotiations scheduled for tomorrow in Geneva,' Grossi said on X.

The Iranian foreign minister then announced a meeting with Oman's head of diplomacy, Badr Albusaidi, "ahead of the diplomatic meeting with the United States on Tuesday", tomorrow, in which Muscat is playing a mediating role. "I am in Geneva with concrete ideas to reach a fair and equitable agreement."

Meanwhile, according to two sources close to the affair who spoke to broadcaster Cbs News on condition of anonymity, during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in December, US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would support Israeli attacks on Iran's ballistic missile programme if no agreement was reached between Washington and Tehran. Two months later, Cbs News has learned that internal discussions between senior US military and intelligence officials have begun to contemplate the possibility of supporting a new series of Israeli attacks against Iran.