00:00You mentioned you have a body of knowledge of what's happening in Iran.
00:02How handicapped are you not being able to have inspectors on the ground?
00:06How holistic a view do you have at the program?
00:07Well, we are, because obviously you can say what you saw until the day you saw it.
00:13We are not analysts, we are inspectors, auditors, in a way.
00:18So to confirm that the amounts of nuclear material or that the infrastructure that we used to visit and inspect
00:25is there or not,
00:27we have to have our inspectors there, and we have lost that capacity.
00:31You were involved in earlier talks surrounding some sort of deal.
00:35Are you involved in it now?
00:36If not, what is lost by not having you as a participant?
00:39There are no talks to begin with.
00:43No direct bilateral talks, of course.
00:45No, well, there has been some conversation.
00:47Apparently here in New York we were not involved.
00:49We are talking to the different interlocutors, if you want, separately,
00:52but there hasn't been a restart of organized conversation about this.
01:00So on that side, there is nothing new to report.
01:05Of course we regret it.
01:07A question about semantics.
01:08We had the President of the United States use this word obliterated once again to describe the program.
01:12Is that a fair assessment of the program?
01:14Well, I don't comment on comments.
01:15You know, that is adjectives that can be used.
01:19What is obvious and can be confirmed is that there has been very important damage,
01:24and, you know, you can characterize it as obliteration, partial destruction, total destruction.
01:30There has been a very important, huge degree of physical damage,
01:36and I think this has also been confirmed by Iran itself.
01:40We had the Obama-era deal that allowed for these inspections.
01:43That took an awful long time to put together.
01:46How optimistic are you that were talks to resume,
01:49you would get to a point in which inspections could happen again?
01:51I think it could be done pretty fast, to be honest.
01:55We have covered a lot of ground already in our work.
02:00The agreement that we would have would be completely different from the JCPOA.
02:06That is the first thing that one has to bear in mind.
02:10That was an agreement that was operating on a nuclear program that was working.
02:16Now we have a post-war scenario, which is completely different, if there is an agreement.
02:23So what we have now is an attempt to have a system to see whether there is some activity
02:29that could be continued, then what to do with the nuclear material,
02:34to downblend it, to export it, what to do with it.
02:37So this is a completely different concept than what we had with the JCPOA.
02:43And it can be done pretty fast, if there is the political route for it.
02:45So, here we go.
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