MNA – Acting Director General of IAEA Cornel Feruta met and hold talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday morning.

The European official visited Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi earlier on the same day.

This is Feruta's first visit to Iran after the Romanian diplomat took over the IAEA after its previous director general, Yukiya Amano, passed away on July 22.

His visit came two days after Iran activated advanced centrifuges in third nuclear deal step.