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IAEA head admits Iran pursuing 'no nuclear weapon program'

Iran Press TV

Saturday, 01 November 2025 9:21 AM

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has once again certified that, based on their field inspections, the Islamic Republic of Iran does not have a nuclear weapon program.

"I can say that there is no nuclear weapon program because we have been inspecting. If we do not inspect, if we are not there, then of course the doubts start to grow," Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Rudaw's Namo Abdulla on Thursday.

This comes as Iran had warned that the enforcement of the so-called "snapback" mechanism and the re-imposition of UN sanctions by the European trio would nullify its agreement with the IAEA on resuming cooperation signed in Cairo on September 9.

It came after the Iranian Parliament unanimously passed legislation requiring the administration to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA following the Israeli-US aggression in June, which targeted three of the country's nuclear sites in a clear violation of international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Grossi acknowledged Iran's security concerns, saying as the IAEA head, his "effort is to try to conduct a diplomatic effort to try to understand their concerns that they have been attacked. So they have concerns. And we want to address these concerns."

According to the Parliament law, IAEA inspectors will not be permitted to enter Iran unless the security of the country's nuclear facilities and that of peaceful nuclear activities is guaranteed, which is subject to the approval of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

The rationale for the move was the IAEA's politically motivated resolution, which paved the way for the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, and the agency's failure to condemn the terrorist assault.

Grossi's comments came over a week after Iran dismissed his calls for renewed negotiations over its peaceful nuclear program, following a joint letter by Tehran, Beijing, and Moscow to the UN Security Council that notes that UN sanctions on Iran have not been automatically re-imposed and that the Security Council's endorsement of the 2015 nuclear deal has now expired.

Concerning satellite images, allegedly showing movements in a number of nuclear sites in Iran, the IAEA head said they were "normal movements."

"You know these are big industrial sites. There are trucks, people moving, but nothing that we would say, you know, that would allow us to think there is work involving the material, for example, that is there, Centrifuges or things like that," Grossi said.