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UN Pulls Out Inspectors as Iran Threatens to Ramp Up Nuclear Program

UN Pulls Out Inspectors as Iran Threatens to Ramp Up Nuclear Program

Newsweek04-07-2025
An outside view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters on June 23, 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
An outside view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters on June 23, 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday its inspectors have departed Tehran and arrived safely to Vienna after Iran suspended cooperation in the wake of attacks on its nuclear program by Israel and the United States.
"An IAEA team of inspectors today safely departed from Iran to return to the Agency headquarters in Vienna, after staying in Tehran throughout the recent military conflict," the agency said on X, formerly Twitter.
This comes a day after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law suspending cooperation with the IAEA, after parliament had voted in favor of the bill previously.
IAEA Director Rafael Grossi has "reiterated the crucial importance of the IAEA discussing with Iran modalities for resuming its indispensable monitoring and verification activities in Iran as soon as possible," the agency said.
This story will be updated with more information.
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