VIENNA: Iran has pushed back hard against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying the resolutions passed by its Board of Governors are flawed and that nuclear inspections cannot go back to normal while the country lives under what it calls abnormal conditions.
In a message on X, Iran’s mission to the UN office in Vienna said the Agency’s reports on Iran rest on Board resolutions that were “technically and legally flawed.” The mission argued they were adopted through an abuse of process and went beyond the Board’s authority, a legal term it expressed as “ultra vires.”
The mission also turned to the words of the Agency’s own chief, Director General Rafael Grossi. According to Iran, Grossi has acknowledged that attacks on the country’s safeguarded nuclear facilities created unprecedented circumstances. Those attacks, Iran says, disrupted inspections and forced the Agency to pull its inspectors out. The mission said this reality deserves serious attention, along with Iran’s security concerns. It blamed the United States and Israel for the strikes.
The tone of the statement was sharp. Iran accused Washington of erasing the aggression from the resolutions while leaving its consequences standing in the real world. “Facts don’t vanish because politics demands,” the mission wrote.
Its central message was firm: normal safeguards cannot and will not resume under abnormal circumstances. Iran said the Board must first deal with the root causes of the present situation. Yet the mission called that an impossible task, since the Board counts among its members the very country Iran accuses of aggression.
The statement leaves the dispute at a standstill. Iran wants its grievances heard before inspectors return, while the Agency’s reports continue to rest on the resolutions Tehran rejects.
