- Iran subjects IAEA collaboration with certainty for nuclear facilities.
- Future inspections from the UN guard dog to need Tehran’s approval.
- FM Araghchi says the country is assessing damage to US strikes.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has granted final approval to a law to suspend cooperation with the United Nations Nuclear Guard Dog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), state media said Wednesday.
“Masoud Pezeshkian promoted the law suspending cooperation with the international nuclear energy agency,” said State TV, which means that the measure was drawn up in the wake of the Iran-Israel war last month is now in effect.
The development comes after Iran’s parliament approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the UN’s nuclear watchdog after an air war with Israel, where Iran’s long -standing enemy said it would prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.
The law determines that any future inspection of IAEA would need the approval of the Supreme National Security Council.
Last week, Parliament’s speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was quoted by state media as also to say that Iran would accelerate his civilian nuclear program.
Tehran has refused to seek nuclear weapons and said that an IAEA decision earlier in June declared Iran in violation of his non-dispersal obligations paved the way for Israel’s attack.
Qalibaf was quoted as saying that IAEA had even refused to condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and “have put its international credibility up for sale.”
He said that “For this reason, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran will suspend its cooperation with the agency until the security of the nuclear facilities is guaranteed and moving at a faster pace with the country’s peaceful nuclear program.”
Seriously damaged nuclear locations
The US bombing of Iran’s Key Fordow Nuclear Site “Seriously and Highly Damaged” at the facility, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with CBS NEWS.
“No one knows exactly what has happened in Fordow. Having said, what we know so far is that the facilities have been severely and severely damaged,” Araghchi said in the interview released Tuesday.
“The atomic energy organization in the Islamic Republic Iran … Currently conducting evaluation and assessment if the report will be submitted to the government.”
Captured Iranian communication neglected the extent of damage caused by US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, the Washington Post Reported Sunday with reference to four people familiar with classified intelligence circulating within the US government.
US President Donald Trump has said the strikes “completely and completely wiped out” Iran’s nuclear program, but US officials acknowledge that it will take time to form a complete assessment of the damage caused by the US military strikes.
