Iran has neither held a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi in Switzerland nor plans for the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect Iran’s damaged nuclear facilities, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

Esmaeil Baghaei said there was no protocol for such inspections, adding that Iran will continue its current obligations as a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and under its safeguards agreement with the IAEA.

The comments contradicted a statement by US Vice President JD Vance, who said Monday that “the Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their country.”

Speaking to reporters at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland, Vance called Iran’s ostensible invitation to UN nuclear inspectors “a major milestone for the American people and the first step in permanently denuclearizing or permanently ending a nuclear weapons program in Iran.”

However, a few hours after Baghaei’s comments, US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran had “fully and completely agreed to highest level nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!)”

“This will insure ‘nuclear honesty.’ If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran, I have agreed to allow the Hormuz Strait to remain OPEN, with no further naval blockade. However, all ships are remaining in place should it be necessary to reinstitute the blockade, which seems, at this point, highly unlikely,” Trump added.

The US lifted its blockade several days before Iran purportedly agreed to allow in UN nuclear inspectors, however.

Iran had initially pushed back against Vance’s comments on Monday, with Baghaei telling the official IRNA news agency that Tehran had not negotiated on its nuclear program and had not accepted any new commitments during Sunday’s talks with the US.

The IAEA has accused Iran of obstructing inspections and failing to give a full account of its highly enriched uranium stockpile after the material was apparently buried in US strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites during last June’s 12-day Israel-Iran war.

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