Iran to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to ‘politicised conduct’ of the UN organisation
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on June 23, “Iran has no plans for non-peaceful activities. But the world clearly saw that the IAEA has failed to uphold its commitments and has turned into a political instrument.”
Ghalibaf emphasised that cooperation with the IAEA would remain suspended unless Tehran receives “tangible guarantees” of the agency’s neutrality.
The announcement comes amid heightened tensions following Zionist entity’s ongoing unprovoked attacks on Iran and recent US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan.
Iran has also filed a complaint against the Director General of IAEA, Rafael Grossi, before the UN Security Council, voicing deep concern over Grossi’s grave dereliction of duty and his failure to fulfill his legal responsibilities under the agency’s statute.
Fiiling the complaint, Amir Saeed Iravan, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said that the public remarks made by Grossi on the eve of the start of the Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran constitute a glaring violation of the principle of neutrality required in his position.
Grossi had remarked that “nuclear sites must never be attacked,” yet pointedly refrained from condemning the Israeli aggression on Iran’s nuclear facilities, an omission that Tehran views as tacit complicity.
Meanwhile, Grossi urged compliance from Iran, the victim, and not the aggressors, Zionist entity and the US. He called on Iran to clarify the whereabouts of enriched uranium allegedly relocated from key nuclear facilities prior to the recent US and Israeli strikes.
“There is a need to notify the Agency of any movement of nuclear materials from safeguarded facilities to other locations in Iran,” Grossi said. “Establishing facts on the ground is essential to any agreement, and that can only be achieved through IAEA inspections.”
He urged Iran to return to the negotiating table and emphasised that IAEA inspectors, the “guardians of the Non-Proliferation Treaty” (NPT), must be granted access to the affected nuclear sites. Grossi specifically cited the need to verify the status of Iran’s stockpile of 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%, which he said remains a “central concern”.
Grossi has a very strange idea of ‘central concern’, because in his position, his central concern should be ensuring the safety and integrity of nuclear facilities worldwide. However, it is not to be expected of him or the IAEA, given that the body had passed on to the Zionist entity critical information about the Iranian nuclear programme.
On June 10, Iranian media released news of leaks through which the Iranian authorities obtained documents on the Zionist entity’s nuclear programme. What is worse, some of those documents revealed direct cooperation between Tel Aviv and the IAEA against Iran.
The documents prove that “Iran’s official and confidential letters to the IAEA – containing sensitive information – were channelled to the espionage agencies of the Zionist regime through covert conduits,” a report published by the Fars news agency on June 10 noted.
The report also noted that several top Iranian nuclear scientists ended up getting assassinated by the Zionist regime due to their names being disclosed by the IAEA.
IAEA is doing in Iran what OPCW (Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons) did in Syria.
