A strike near the Gulf coast in Bushehr — home to Iran’s only operational nuclear reactor — briefly triggered widespread alarm on Thursday when Israel claimed to have hit the site, before later retracting the statement, calling it a “mistake”

Grossi’s comments came just hours before he arrived in Tehran, where he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a bid to reinforce the IAEA’s role as the primary monitor of any future nuclear agreement

Speaking at the Manama Dialogue conference in Bahrain, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), highlighted that Iran has significantly increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, a level just shy of the 90% purity required for nuclear weapons