A year after US and Israeli airstrikes knocked out key Iranian nuclear facilities, international inspectors are heading back in. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi confirmed on June 24, 2026, that nuclear inspections in Iran will proceed following an interim peace accord between Washington and Tehran. The modalities and timelines, he noted, are still being worked out.
What Grossi said, and what Iran said back
The confirmation from Grossi is the most concrete signal yet that some form of resumed oversight is coming. But Iran’s Foreign Ministry moved quickly to push back on the framing, rejecting claims that Tehran had agreed to any new commitments, particularly around access to sites damaged in the June 2025 strikes.
Iran’s position, stated plainly: their existing obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty cover what inspectors can see. Bombed facilities, in Tehran’s view, do not require additional protocols beyond standard NPT safeguards.
US officials, including President Trump and Vice President Vance, have publicly claimed there is a firm agreement on inspections. Iran has rejected those characterizations. So the two sides have, in effect, announced the same deal with incompatible descriptions of what the deal actually says.
