Ghalibaf: Nuclear Program to Make Headway More Quickly

Majlis Passes Bill to Suspend Cooperation With IAEA

Date: 25 June 2025 - 23:47

News ID: ۱۴۰۸۰۸

TEHRAN -- The Iranian
parliament voted on Wednesday to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after a 12-day Israeli war which Tehran says the UN nuclear agency paved the way for.
“The IAEA, which refused to even marginally condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, has put its international credibility up for auction,” said the Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Muhammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Ghalibaf said Tehran’s move will see the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) halt cooperation with the IAEA “until the safety of Iran’s nuclear facilities is guaranteed.”
“Iran’s peaceful nuclear program will make headway more quickly,” he added. “Iran has no plans for non-peaceful nuclear activities. But the world has witnessed that the IAEA has turned into a political tool instead of a neutral inspectorate.”
The bill was passed by a majority of lawmakers and awaits final approval from the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.
Lawmakers were seen in video footage chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in parliament after the vote.
The move could see Iran block UN inspections of its nuclear facilities if approved by the Supreme National Security Council. It was announced by Ghalibaf on June 23.
Iranian nuclear facilities were damaged in violent Israeli airstrikes during the 12-day war, which began on June 13. Last weekend, U.S. B-2 bombers joined Israel’s assault and dropped at least a dozen GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s heavily fortified Fordo nuclear site. U.S. jets also struck other nuclear facilities.
Iran is currently assessing the damage to its nuclear sites. Iranian media reported at the time that all enriched uranium had been removed from nuclear facilities in advance, including Fordo.
The Israel–Iran war came to an end on June 24 after a sudden ceasefire was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Israel’s U.S.-backed aggression against Iran began just a day after the IAEA board passed a resolution accusing Tehran of non-compliance with its nuclear obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement. The resolution was based on an IAEA report in late May.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said last week that the IAEA report helped enable the Israeli war. Muhammad Eslami, chief of the AEOI, said Iran would pursue legal action against IAEA head Rafael Grossi.
Tehran announced before the war that its intelligence had obtained sensitive documents on Tel Aviv’s nuclear program.
The documents reportedly indicated that Grossi and the IAEA passed on to Israel sensitive and confidential information provided to the agency by Iran.