Mission to Vienna Slams IAEA’s ‘One-Sided’ Report
VIENNA -- Iran’s mission to the United Nations in Vienna has issued a sharply critical statement, condemning the International Atomic Energy Agency for applying double standards by refusing to condemn U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities, while simultaneously demanding inspections of sites that were bombed.
The mission said the IAEA has drawn up its reports on Iran based on Board of Governors resolutions that were “technically and legally flawed, adopted by abuse of process, and their findings were ultra vires”.
It pointed to a glaring inconsistency, saying while Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities—protected under the Agency’s safeguards—were struck by American and Israeli bombs in an event unprecedented in the IAEA’s history, no condemnation was ever issued.
The Iranian mission contrasted this silence with the Director General’s public condemnation of the death of a single staff member at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, saying that in Iran’s case, “the Director General apparently considered condemnation to be outside his ‘scope’ and ‘task’”.
“As Rafael Grossi 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 added: “U.S. erased aggression from biased resolutions, but not its consequences from reality. Facts don’t vanish because politics demands!”
The statement made with a direct challenge to the Board of Governors: “Normal safeguards implementation cannot and will not resume under abnormal circumstances. BoG must address root causes of the current situation; an impossible mission since it embraces the aggressor as a member!”