New UN nuclear watchdog chief has tightrope to walk: experts

Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi, the newly appointed chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is facing a tightrope on Iran nuclear issue, according to experts in arms control and non-proliferation.

Grossi, talking to Russian think tank Valdai Discussion Club in September, said that it is not up to the IAEA to save or not to save the Iran nuclear deal. The IAEA has "a very specific role to play," he said, "in the application of the verification measures that sustained these agreements or any other agreement."

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