In a joint statement, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations and the United States reiterated their calls on Iran to fully cooperate with the IAEA.
The announcement followed a meeting in New York between the GCC Secretary-General and the foreign ministers of the GCC Arab nations.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, called Iran’s decision to exclude several International IAEA inspectors tasked from monitoring Tehran’s nuclear activity “disproportionate and unprecedented.”
Iran’s action came in response to a request made last week at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany for Tehran to begin working with the agency right once on matters like elucidating uranium traces discovered at unauthorised locations.