IAEA report based on ‘technically, legally flawed’ resolutions: Iran
Iran’s permanent mission to international organizations in Vienna criticized a recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Iran’s nuclear program, saying that the UN agency has based its reports on resolutions that are “technically and legally flawed”.
“@IAEAorg has based its reports for #Iran on resolutions of BoG which were technically and legally flawed, adopted by abuse of process, and their findings were ultra vires”, Iran’s mission said in a post on X on Saturday.
“As Rafael Grossi (IAEA’s chief) himself acknowledged, attacks on Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities created unprecedented circumstances, disrupted inspections, forced the Agency to withdraw its inspectors and warrant consideration of Iran’s security concerns”, the mission said.
It underlined that the Board of Governors must address root causes of the current situation, adding that normal safeguards implementation cannot and will not resume under abnormal circumstances.
The IAEA has not had access to key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel, joined by the United States, launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites.
Nuclear facilities have also been hit in the latest war, which erupted on February 28.
Iran has long argued that the US-Israeli attacks constituted grave violations of the UN Charter, the IAEA Statute, and fundamental nuclear safety principles.
Tehran has repeatedly called on the IAEA’s chief to fulfill his legal and professional obligations by condemning such acts, warning that selective silence undermines the credibility of the non-proliferation regime and the agency’s claimed impartiality.
“US erased aggression from biased resolutions, but not its consequences from reality. Facts don’t vanish because politics demands” the Iranian mission said in its Saturday’s statement.
The comments came a day after the IAEA called for Tehran to restore access for its inspectors in a report circulated by the watchdog among member states, insisting the move was essential to carry out its remit to monitor the Iranian nuclear program.
“The director general encourages Iran to consider technical and gradual measures by which conditions are achieved that allow for the return of agency inspectors to Iran,” the report said.
The IAEA “acknowledged that the military attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and sites created an unprecedented situation”.
But because of a lack of cooperation “the agency is not able to conclude that there has been no diversion of declared nuclear material from peaceful nuclear activities in Iran”, the report claimed, raising “serious proliferation concern” that “needs to be rectified with the utmost urgency”.
The IAEA board in September referred Iran to the UN Security Council, marking the first time Iran has been referred to the UN top body in 20 years for “failing to comply with its nuclear reporting obligations”.