IAEA inspectors yet to get access to Iran's nuclear sites: Grossi

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors have not obtained the permission to enter Iran's nuclear facilities despite a formal request to resume on-site checks, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in Vienna on Friday.

Grossi said the agency has formally asked Iranian authorities to allow its inspectors to return to the nuclear sites for verification work, but no clearance has been granted to date. Despite the access restrictions, he noted that based on his "overall impression," Iran's existing nuclear materials remain inside the facilities, and the IAEA has full records of their storage locations and quantities of the stockpile.

Grossi added that satellite imagery and other monitoring tools indicate severe destruction at several Iranian nuclear sites, with access roads to some facilities reportedly cut off.

On June 24, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi said that inspection of Iran's attacked nuclear facilities and nuclear materials can only be reviewed and discussed within the framework of a final Iran-U.S. agreement, and only on the precondition that the U.S side takes concrete action to lift all sanctions.

Gharibabadi noted that Iran currently has no plans to grant the IAEA access to the attacked nuclear facilities and nuclear material zones.

A public mourning ceremony for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was held in Tehran, the Iranian capital, on Saturday local time.

Seven days of funeral ceremonies will continue through July 9, with processions in Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad, as well as rites in Iraq. Iranian authorities have announced public closures and airspace restrictions in Tehran and Mashhad on key dates, with Thursday declared a day of national mourning.

Ali Khamenei was killed in a U.S. and Israeli strike in Tehran on Feb. 28. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was selected as Iran's new supreme leader in March.