Iran has opened its doors to the world’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA as part of a deal with six world powers aimed at preventing the country from building an atom bomb. <br /><br />In exchange, Iran is starting to recover billions in assets frozen by UN-backed sanctions, though the trade embargoes remain in place to pressure for a final agreement. <br /><br />Critics say all the moves are reversible, that Iran could secretly divert bomb-building personnel and facilities deep underground, immune from air strikes. <br /><br />Iran’s new president, Hassan Rohani, is credited with the initial nuclear deal. But with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remaining the supreme leader, is Iran just buying time? <br /><br />Those are the issues under discussion in this edition of The Network. <br /><br />Hosting the programme at the European Parliament, Chris Burns gets the views of three panelists with their own perspective on developments. <br /><br />They are: Tarja Cronberg, Finnish MEP, Chair Delegation for relations with Iran and a meber of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance; <br /><br />His Excellency Mahmoud Barimani, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ambassador to the European Union. <br /><br />And joining the show from Vienna is Robert Kelley, Associated Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
