A watchman-turned-actor;
Grossi’s costly legacy for global peace
By Kamran Yeganegi
Foreign policy expert
In the realm of international relations, oversight bodies must be pillars of stability and impartiality; their legitimacy derives not from hard power but from soft trust. Yet, when a watchman, instead of safeguarding peace, becomes a facilitator of crisis, one must ask: Where did the failure occur? Within the institution itself or its leadership? The contemporary embodiment of this question is undoubtedly the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General, Rafael Grossi.
Over the past two years, a series of IAEA reports marked by contradictory claims, ambiguous formulations, and questionable timing have done more to escalate tensions than to resolve the Iranian nuclear dossier. The apex of this trend came in the spring of this year amidst heightened confrontations between Iran and Israel, culminating in a 12-day conflict ignited, as many analysts attest, by a half-baked IAEA report.
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