TEHRAN: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned on Thursday that the “space for negotiation and diplomacy … is getting smaller” over Iran’s advancing atomic programme as wars in the Mideast rage on and as President Donald Trump will return to the White House.
Rafael Mariano Grossi of the IAEA was visiting Tehran in an effort to restore his inspectors’ access to Iran’s programme.
Meanwhile, 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Damascus on Thursday, Syrian state media reported, and Israel said the attacks targeted military sites and the headquarters of the Islamic Jihad group.