U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Monday that as part of an agreement due to be formally signed this week, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors would be allowed into Iran to oversee the dismantling of its nuclear program. File Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo
June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President JD Vance said nuclear inspectors would be allowed back into Iran to verify Tehran was in compliance with the terms of a framework agreement to end the three-and-a-half-month war due to be signed Friday in Switzerland.
Vance told NBC News on Monday night that the destruction of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium under the supervision of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, formed a key part of the Memorandum of Understanding.
"One of the core parts of the agreement is that the IAEA and the United States are going to help Iran destroy the highly enriched stockpile, and that's something that's spelled out very clearly," Vance said.
He said the timing and exact details of how this would be done would be the subject of technical negotiations on Iran's nuclear program that would be set in motion with the MOU signing, adding that given the "broad agreement" on the issue, he believed access for the inspectors would happen "very quickly."
