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Russia: Diplomacy has already 'kicked the bucket' thanks to West's anti-Iranian measures

Iran Press TV

Friday, 21 November 2025 8:44 PM

Russia has sharply condemned the latest anti-Iran resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors, saying Western countries have deliberately "killed diplomacy" with the Islamic Republic by pushing the resolution through.

Speaking on Saturday, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said the resolution that was adopted a day earlier saw the West, featuring the US and its European allies of the UK, France, and Germany, ignore months of Iranian cooperation.

According to the envoy, the Western states' drive also sidestepped the extraordinary security conditions that has been created by the US-Israeli military attacks against Iran's nuclear facilities in June.

The resolution has faulted the level of the Islamic Republic's cooperation with the agency.

Tehran suspended the cooperation in the aftermath of the illegal and unprovoked war by the Israeli regime and the US between June 13 and 25 that had used an earlier such IAEA resolution as an excuse.

The country then conditioned renewed cooperation on the agency's condemning the aggression and ensuring the security of the Iranian nuclear installations, while underlining that the conditions created by the war had rendered it impossible for the cooperation to continue as before.

The two sides reached an agreement in Cairo on September 9 aimed at resumption of the cooperation. Also on Wednesday, the agency commended the level of the cooperation, confirming that inspectors had resumed work at facilities unaffected by the military attacks.

Also on Saturday, however, Tehran decided to terminate the Cairo agreement as, what Ulyanov called, "a direct consequence of the hostile resolution."

Ulyanov stressed that the West had driven the process into a "complete impasse," despite repeatedly claiming this was "not the end of diplomacy."

"Thanks to their efforts," he said, "diplomacy has already kicked the bucket. Resolutions like this are never adopted when genuine diplomacy is at work. What we are seeing is very far from real politics."

He added that Moscow would first assess the situation before proposing any initiative, noting that Russia, Iran, China, and many others had warned the E3 and the United States not to sabotage the technical process with pressure tactics.