Iranian nuclear chief visits Moscow, RIA says


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  • Monday, 22 Sep 2025

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), speaks at the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, September 15, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, Mohammad Eslami, has arrived in Moscow for talks, Russia's state-run RIA news agency quoted the Iranian embassy as saying on Monday.

The 15-member U.N. Security Council earlier opted not to permanently lift sanctions on Tehran, after three European countries launched a 30-day process last month to reimpose them, accusing Tehran of failing to abide by a 2015 deal with world powers aimed at preventing it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran denies having any such intention, and Russia says it supports Tehran's right to peaceful nuclear energy.

Eslami is also Iran's vice president. RIA did not say whom he would meet in Moscow.

(Reporting by Marina Boborova; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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