(VOVworld) - Iran has begun implementing transparency measures ahead of the August 25 deadline as it promised the International Atomic Energy Agency. IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told reporters at the Vienna airport on Monday upon his return from Iran that the implementation of five transparency steps has begun, including providing information about issues that are part of IAEA’s inquiry into what it calls the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program. Amano expects that progress will be made over the next week.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano talks to the media as he arrives at Vienna's airport August 18, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi said representatives of Iran and the P5+1 group (the UK, the US, Russia, France, China, and Germany) will resume nuclear talks on the sidelines of next month’s session of the UN General Assembly in New York.