Iran vows legal response to IAEA ‘inaction’ after attack on nuclear site
Iran’s nuclear chief condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency’s “inaction” after Israel’s attack on the Arak reactor in the center of the country on Thursday, vowing to pursue “legal measures to defend sovereign rights.”
Mohammad Eslami, who heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), detailed violations of international treaties in a letter to the IAEA Director General Rafel Grossi, demanding immediate condemnation of the Zionist regime’s “unlawful actions.”
He urged Grossi to fulfill his statutory duties by “immediately ending this inaction.”
“Iran will undertake the necessary measures to defend its sovereign rights and will pursue appropriate legal actions, particularly concerning the inaction taken by Your Excellency personally,” Eslami said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmael Baqaei also strongly criticized Grossi for involving the IAEA in an “unjust, aggressive” war.
“Mr. Grossi, you have betrayed the non-proliferation regime,” Baqaei said, warning that “misleading narratives” would have “devastating consequences.”
Meanwhile, former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted Grossi for presenting an “irresponsible and fallacious IAEA report” which he said caused” irreparable damage” to the agency.
“He must be held accountable for his complicity in the death of innocents in Iran caused by Israeli aggression using his report as a pretext,” he wrote on his X account.
The AEOI announced that the attack on the nuclear research reactor and heavy water production facility in Arak resulted in no casualties.