Tehran accuses the IAEA of politicizing its reports.
Tehran accuses the IAEA of politicizing its reports.
2026-06-06
Shafaq News – Tehran
Tehran on Saturday accused the UN agency of politicizing its reports, after the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that it would be impossible to visit Iranian facilities to verify nuclear materials.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told Iranian media, as reported by Reuters, that the agency should avoid turning technical reports into “tools of political pressure” if it wants to contribute to reaching a diplomatic solution.
He added that the agency’s inability to monitor some facilities resulted from the attacks and not from Iran’s lack of cooperation, accusing the agency of exploiting the aftermath of the US and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to create “ambiguity” about Tehran’s nuclear program.
This came after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned in a confidential report, scheduled to be discussed at a meeting of the agency’s Board of Governors next week, that the inability to visit facilities to verify nuclear materials in Iran raises “nuclear proliferation concerns,” calling on Tehran to cooperate with it “constructively,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP) last Thursday.
The agency also acknowledged that the military attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and sites had created an unprecedented situation, but stressed that conducting verification activities without delay was of paramount importance. It stated that its inability to “access and verify previously declared stockpiles of highly enriched and low-enriched uranium for nearly a year—a delay far exceeding normal safeguards practices—is a matter of proliferation concern.”
A diplomatic source explained that the Atomic Energy Agency had not detected “any movements” at key nuclear sites such as Isfahan and Natanz since the outbreak of the war.
The UN agency has not been able to visit these nuclear sites since the war launched by Israel against Iran in June 2015, in which the United States participated by striking three major nuclear sites. These facilities were also targeted in the latest war launched by Washington and Tel Aviv against Tehran starting on February 28.
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