Iran will allow nuclear inspectors back into its country as peace negotiations between the U.S. and Tehran continue, Vice President JD Vance said Monday.
Speaking from Bürgenstock, Switzerland, Vance said Tehran’s agreement to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back into the country is “a major milestone for the American people, and the first step in permanently denuclearizing or permanently ending a nuclear weapons program in Iran.”
Iran had announced it would suspend cooperation with the agency in July 2025 after Washington had launched strikes on the country’s nuclear enrichment facilities that June. The last time the IAEA had access to the declared military sites affected by those strikes was in June 2025, and the agency stopped all in-field verification activities in Iran once the war started in February 2026, according to the group’s director general. The group was able to resume limited inspection of one site in early June, he added.
Vance on Monday said officials had tried to call inspectors around 2 a.m. Bürgenstock time to begin discussion. Though few answered, he said, “we think even some of those conversations with the inspectors and with the IAEA could happen as soon as today.”
