IAEA Head Grossi describes the new government as “committed to open to the world, international cooperation.”

According to the agency's head, the new Syrian government has agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to immediately visit inspectors suspected of the former nuclear site as Damascus further stepped up to rejoin the international scope.

Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the United Nations Nuclear Monitoring Agency, spoke with the Associated Press in Damascus on Wednesday, where he met with President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and other officials.

The visit is a key part of the IAEA's efforts to restore locations related to the Syrian nuclear program, since the recall of Bashar Al-Assad in December.

The purpose of the agency is to "in the agency's judgment, certain activities that have occurred in the past may be related to nuclear weapons." He described the new administration as “committed to open to the world, international cooperation” and said he hoped to complete the inspection process within a few months.

Grossi's visit also marks another step in international acceptance of the new Syrian government after the United States and the EU lifted sanctions on the country last month. Israel has taken the opposite approach to Western allies, launching more than 200 air, drone or artillery attacks throughout Syria over the past six months, despite indirect negotiations between the two countries in early May.

The IAEA team visited some locations of interest last year. Syria, under Al-Assad, was believed to have run a wide range of secret nuclear programs, including the unannounced nuclear reactor built by North Korea in the province of Deir Ez-Zor.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) describes the reactor as "not configured to generate electricity" - raising concerns about Damascus's efforts to produce nuclear weapons through the production of weapons-grade PA.

The reactor site is only on the only nuclear power in the region. Israel launched an air strike in 2007, thus destroying the facility. Syria later upgraded the website and never fully answered the IAEA question.

Grossi said inspectors plan to return to reactors at AZ ZOR and three other related sites. Other locations under IAEA safeguards include the miniature neutron source reactor in Damascus and the Holmes facility that can handle chlorhexidine uranium.

While there is no sign of radiation release in these sites, the watchdogs are concerned that “enriched uranium can lie somewhere, be reused, can be smuggled, and can be trafficked”, Grossi said.

al-Sharaa showed a “very positive tendency to talk to us and allow us to do the activities we need”, he said.

Grossi revealed that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is also preparing to transfer nuclear medicine equipment and help rebuild the infrastructure of radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and oncology in health systems, which was severely weakened nearly 14 years after the Civil War.

"The president told me that he would also be interested in exploring nuclear energy in the future," Grossi added.

Many other countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan, are pursuing nuclear energy in some form.