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Iranian leader using TV address to ‘divert attention’ from economic crisis, communists warn
President Ebrahim Raisi smiles during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022.

IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi warned in a rare televised address today that international inspectors must abandon their probe into man-made uranium particles if there is to be progress on a nuclear deal.

Mr Raisi tried to present a picture of normality in the news conference marking his first year in office, Iranian communists said.

Tehran and Washington have traded written responses in recent weeks on the finer points of getting the 2015 nuclear deal operational again after then United States president Donald Trump unilaterally walked away from the accord in 2018.

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