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Iran enacts law halting all cooperation with nuclear watchdog IAEA
The bill, titled 'Suspension of the Islamic Republic's Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency with a Two-Urgency Requirement,' was originally put forward in parliament last month. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Wednesday that Iran would suspend cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, Iranian state media reported. The bill, titled 'Suspension of the Islamic Republic's Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency with a Two-Urgency Requirement,' was originally put forward in Iranian parliament last month. "Given the violation of Iran's national sovereignty and territorial integrity by the Zionist regime and the United States of America with respect to the country's peaceful nuclear facilities and the endangerment of Iran's supreme interests, based on Article 60 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on Treaties, the government is obligated to immediately suspend any cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency based on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its safeguards, until certain conditions are met, including ensuring the security of the facilities and scientists,' it read. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the country cannot be expected to ensure usual cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency when the security of agency inspectors cannot be guaranteed days after nuclear sites were hit by Israeli and US strikes. Iran has halted collaborating with the IAEA "until the safety and security of our nuclear activities can be guaranteed," the country's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, posted on X/Twitter on Friday. He also indicated that Tehran may reject any request by the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, for visits to Iranian nuclear sites. The decision was made because the agency's Director-General, Rafael Grossi, had facilitated a resolution against the Islamic Republic by the IAEA's Board of Governors that was "politically motivated," Araghchi claimed. The Islamic Republic official also added that the strikes on the country's nuclear facilities by US and Israeli forces also factored into the decision. Araghchi claimed that the strikes were "blatant violations of IAEA safeguards," and that Grossi failed to condemn them. Araghchi also claimed that Grossi's wish to visit the nuclear strikes that were struck is "meaningless and possibly even malign in intent." Grossi then emphasized the need for IAEA inspectors to continue their verification activities in Iran.
Sky News
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Israel-Iran live: Iran executes three men accused of spying for Israel - as Trump rejects US intel on nuclear sites
Explained: Where are Iran's nuclear facilities? Donald Trump has been praising US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities - but intelligence suggests the destruction may not have been emphatic as he claims. In fact, the attacks may have just set the programme back by months, rather than eliminated it entirely - see our post at 21.16. As a reminder, this map shows the key nuclear locations - and we'll be going through each one. For context, we use the term nuclear proliferation a lot below, so here's the definition: The spread of nuclear weapons, and, more generally, the spread of nuclear technology and knowledge that might be put to military use. Nuclear proliferation is controlled by the Nuclear Non‐proliferation Treaty, which recognises five nuclear states: the US, the UK, Russia, China and France. Oxford Reference Natanz One of Iran's principal uranium enrichment complexes lies on a plain adjacent to mountains outside the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. Natanz houses facilities including two enrichment plants: the vast, underground Fuel Enrichment Plant and the above-ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant. It was revealed in 2002 that Iran was secretly building the facility, which is said to be three floors underground. Fordow Another enrichment site can be found at Fordow - one that is extremely well protected, given that it's thought to be dug into the side of a mountain. Isfahan Iran's second-biggest city is home to a large nuclear technology centre, which includes a Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant and a uranium conversion facility. There is equipment at Isfahan to make uranium metal, a process that is particularly proliferation-sensitive since it can be used to create the core of a nuclear bomb. Khondab In Khondab lies a partially built heavy-water research reactor. These pose a nuclear proliferation risk because they can produce plutonium which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of an atom bomb. Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to bring the reactor online in 2026, with a previous 2015 deal seeing the reactor's core removed and filled with concrete to make it unusable. Tehran Iran's nuclear research facilities in its capital Tehran include a research reactor. Bushehr Iran's only operating nuclear power plant lies in the Bushehr area on the Gulf coast. The facility uses Russian fuel that Moscow then takes back when it is spent, therefore reducing the proliferation risk.
Sky News
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Iran executes three men accused of spying for Israel - as Trump rejects US intel on nuclear sites
Explained: Where are Iran's nuclear facilities? Donald Trump has been praising US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities - but intelligence suggests the destruction may not have been emphatic as he claims. In fact, the attacks may have just set the programme back by months, rather than eliminated it entirely - see our post at 21.16. As a reminder, this map shows the key nuclear locations - and we'll be going through each one. For context, we use the term nuclear proliferation a lot below, so here's the definition: The spread of nuclear weapons, and, more generally, the spread of nuclear technology and knowledge that might be put to military use. Nuclear proliferation is controlled by the Nuclear Non‐proliferation Treaty, which recognises five nuclear states: the US, the UK, Russia, China and France. Oxford Reference Natanz One of Iran's principal uranium enrichment complexes lies on a plain adjacent to mountains outside the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. Natanz houses facilities including two enrichment plants: the vast, underground Fuel Enrichment Plant and the above-ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant. It was revealed in 2002 that Iran was secretly building the facility, which is said to be three floors underground. Fordow Another enrichment site can be found at Fordow - one that is extremely well protected, given that it's thought to be dug into the side of a mountain. Isfahan Iran's second-biggest city is home to a large nuclear technology centre, which includes a Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant and a uranium conversion facility. There is equipment at Isfahan to make uranium metal, a process that is particularly proliferation-sensitive since it can be used to create the core of a nuclear bomb. Khondab In Khondab lies a partially built heavy-water research reactor. These pose a nuclear proliferation risk because they can produce plutonium which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of an atom bomb. Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to bring the reactor online in 2026, with a previous 2015 deal seeing the reactor's core removed and filled with concrete to make it unusable. Tehran Iran's nuclear research facilities in its capital Tehran include a research reactor. Bushehr Iran's only operating nuclear power plant lies in the Bushehr area on the Gulf coast. The facility uses Russian fuel that Moscow then takes back when it is spent, therefore reducing the proliferation risk.
Express Tribune
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Israel will spread nuclear arms everywhere
Listen to article When ISIS started around 2014, many people opined that this terrorist group was created by the United States in order to further its interests in the Middle East. While that was not true, the United States actually created the conditions, which created the terror group. The US invaded Iraq and captured and tortured some of the men who had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda. Some of those men went on to create ISIS as a result of the humiliation they had faced at the hands of American occupiers. Similarly, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty has been successful in preventing most of the states around the world from acquiring nuclear weapons not because the Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer, who was accused of selling the formula for nuclear bomb to US-designated rogue states, was confined but because most states did not feel the need to go nuclear. Nation states strongly believed that international laws, international bodies, and especially the United States would do the moral thing if these states ever faced aggression from other countries. That may have changed for good now if not before. Libya was one of those states that gave up its nuclear programme in exchange for benefits and guarantees from the United States. Gaddafi faced the result of that bad calculation and Libya is no longer there as we knew it. North Korea showed defiance in the face of similar pressure to give up its nuclear programme and while it is very poor, it has survived the American onslaughts and shenanigans. Pakistan is a vivid example as well. Iran signed the NPT. It allowed international inspectors on its soil to satisfy the needs of the world that it was not making a nuclear bomb. The result was that Iran was always accused of cheating and planning to rush toward making a bomb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the world that Iran would become a nuclear armed state within 3 to 5 years. He first said that in 1992 and then in 1995. He said it in 2015 and before and after that as well. None of it was true. Every time an American president opened his mouth about Iran, he issued a threat against it. Obama said, "I don't bluff" and "all options are on the table" including the "military component". After the 1979 revolution in Iran, America has worked against Iran at every step. It provided chemical weapons to Iraq to be used against Iran. It has imposed sanctions on Iraq and deterred other countries from buying Iranian oil. All despite Iran choosing not to go nuclear or maybe because of it. The truth is Iran never wanted to make a bomb. But that may have just changed. Their calculus, if they have people who can do so much as add and subtract, would only come to one conclusion: Iran must have nuclear weapons in order to deter the world from acting against it. Israel and its unconditional supporter America criticise and impose sanctions on nations that are capable of fighting and defending their sovereignty. Bloody wars are waged against countries that are defenseless, that are not nuclear armed states. Israel would have never ever dared of attacking Iran, had Iran been a nuclear armed state. More importantly, Iran playing the nice guy and being the norms following player have not yielded any defence benefits for it. It has rather weakened its defence. And this is not just playing inside the mind of Iran but rather inside the mind of every nation state. Being in the good books of the US by giving up the thought of nuclear weapons isn't a currency strong enough to be banked upon to ensure defence should a US ally attack you. Israel is creating the desire for states to want to go nuclear. Despite the habit of the world to tap itself on the shoulder for being civilised, in the end survival comes down to brute power. Not values, not education, not anything else.
New York Post
17-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Israel's strikes on Iran: Letters to the Editor — June 17, 2025
The Issue: Israel's attacks on Iran's military leaders and its nuclear scientists and facilities. It was only a matter of time before Israel pulled the trigger ('Israel strikes Iran,' June 13). Iran and its proxies have been taunting Israel (and, for that matter, the United States) for a very long time. The revelation of nuclear near-preparedness was the straw that broke the camel's back. Israel will come out of this victoriously, and its neighbors and the rest of the world will be grateful for Israel's assault on this evil regime. Ronald Frank West Orange, NJ National security is the responsibility of the governing body of a nation. It is Israel's decision to bomb Iran to protect itself. It is not based on the opinion of other nations or groups. Ed Houlihan Ridgewood, NJ The bitter lesson from the 9/11 terrorist attack is to neutralize threats before they materialize on our shores. As the saying goes, 'If people show you who they are, believe them.' The last thing we need is to allow the world's most prolific sponsor of terrorism to have the world's most deadliest weapons. President Trump bent over backward to 'give peace a chance' and to remedy this dangerous standoff diplomatically. Whether the liberals of the world want to acknowledge it or not, the world is a lot safer with Iran defanged. Luana Dunn Medford President Trump loves to make deals, but there are no deals that the Iranian regime can be trusted to honor. A regime that violated the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and the 2015 JCPOA (former President Obama's Iran deal), as well as its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency on nuclear-facility inspections, can't be trusted to honor any deal concerning its nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile programs. The only acceptable conclusion to the current conflict between Israel and Iran is an Israeli victory. This means the complete nuclear disarmament of Iran, overseen by the United States and the IAEA. No deal that grants the Iranian regime anything else should even be considered, as this would be a recipe for a return of the Iranian nuclear threat currently being removed at such great cost. Daniel H. Trigoboff Williamsville In June 1981, Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, depriving Saddam Hussein of the ability to develop nuclear weapons and simultaneously doing the world a favor. This led to the declaration of the Begin Doctrine, which outlines Israel's policy of preventative military strikes to protect itself. Forty-four years later, Israel has delivered again by crippling the nuclear program of yet another rogue nation. Toda lech! Peter W. Kelly Hazlet, NJ The Issue: Sen. Alex Padilla being handcuffed and thrown out of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's briefing. Last week, we witnessed a lawfully serving US senator wrestled to the floor and manhandled by security ('Senator in Noem boot,' June 13). Is George Orwell's fictional world now the reality in President Trump's American autocracy? Malcolm Odell, Jr. Exeter, NH I sent farewell letters to all my loved ones before carrying the sign 'De-throne the lying king' in a protest march this weekend. I figured if a US senator could be thrown to the ground and handcuffed for simply asking a question, they wouldn't hesitate for a moment in sending this 82-year-old woman to El Salvador. Sharon Austry Fort Worth, Texas
