Why it matters:
The IAEA is struggling to find ways, either through issuing statements, to enter Iran so that it could have an assessment of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian military sites.
The assessment is useful for the U.S. and Israeli regime's next round of aggression on Iran.
What's happened:
Following the U.S.-Israel's June attack on Iran, including the nuclear sites, the Iranian Parliament passed a law enforcing the immediate suspension of cooperation with the IAEA due to the agency's manipulated report about Iran's nuclear program.
By virtue of the law, all IAEA inspectors left Iran and all surveillance cameras were removed from Iranian nuclear sites.
Iran, in a letter dated 14 August 2025, indicated that the actions of the IAEA's two inspectors involved “constitute a breach of certain provisions under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement” and objected to “the continued designation of the two inspectors”.
What BoG says:
The IAEA's Board of Governors (BoG) has released a report on September 3, 2025:
- “Iran’s many failures to uphold its obligations… constitute non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement”;
- “The Agency is not able to verify that there has been no diversion of nuclear material.”
- And it called upon Iran to “urgently remedy its non-compliance with its Safeguards Agreement.”
The bottom line:
Because of the lack of access and information, the IAEA says it cannot fully confirm that all Iranian nuclear material is in peaceful use.
However, the report does not assert that Iran is actively seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
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