AN AGREEMENT between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will provide the agency with access to all of the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities, the head of the United Nations agency said today.

The deal will also require Tehran to report on the whereabouts of material that was at sites attacked by Israel and the US earlier this year.

The accord was announced on Tuesday after a meeting between IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.

Details of the agreement were not immediately released, but in an address today to the IAEA board of governors in Vienna, Mr Grossi said the document “provides for a clear understanding for the procedures of inspection notifications and their implementation.”

The deal “includes all facilities and installations in Iran, and it also contemplates the required reporting on all the attacked facilities, including the nuclear material present at those,” Mr Grossi added, noting that it would “open the way for the respective inspections and access,” without specifying when that would happen.

“The technical nature of this document does not diminish its profound significance. Iran and the agency will now resume co-operation in a respective and comprehensive way. These practical steps, allow me to state the obvious, need to be implemented now,” Mr Grossi told the board of governors.

On July 2, President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law adopted by Iran’s parliament suspending all co-operation with the UN nuclear watchdog. That followed Israel’s unprovoked attack and subsequent exchange of missiles with Iran in June, during which the US also struck Iranian nuclear sites.

IAEA inspectors have been unable to verify Iran’s near bomb-grade stockpile since the start of the conflict, which the agency has described as “a matter of serious concern.”