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Iran urges IAEA to reflect truth after slamming agency's politically-charged report

Iran Press TV

Saturday, 31 May 2025 11:55 PM

Iran has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to reflect the realities concerning the Islamic Republic's peaceful nuclear energy program and prevent political exploitation of its coverage of the country's nuclear activities.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the remarks to the IAEA's Director General Rafael Grossi during a telephone conversation on Saturday.

The call featured the officials' discussing, among other things, the agency's newly published report on the Islamic Republic.

During the exchange, Araghchi reaffirmed the country's continued cooperation with the IAEA, noting that all of its nuclear activities were under the agency's supervision and conducted in line with the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. The agreement allows the IAEA to verify that all nuclear materials in a country are used only for peaceful purposes, and are not diverted towards production of nuclear weapons.

The Iranian top diplomat, meanwhile, emphasized that there had been no deviation concerning either nuclear materials or activities at any stage of the nation's nuclear program.

FM: IAEA should resist pressure aimed at politicization

Araghchi urged Grossi to ensure the agency's reports accurately reflected these facts to prevent certain actors from using the IAEA as a political tool against the Islamic Republic.

He also called on the agency's director general to underscore Iran's cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog at the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors' meeting and to caution against politically-driven actions against the country, particularly by European states.

Araghchi warned that Iran would respond appropriately to any unjustified move and that responsibility for such outcomes would rest with those politicizing the agency's mission. The remarks concerned underway efforts by the UK, France, and Germany -- the United States allies in a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran -- to return the UN's sanctions against the Islamic Republic by resorting to the so-called "snapback" mechanism.

Araghchi's conversation with Grossi came after Iran's Foreign Ministry and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) issued a joint statement strongly criticizing the IAEA's recent quarterly report, which had accused the Islamic Republic of, what the IAEA had called, stepping up its production of highly enriched uranium.

Denouncing the report as "political and unbalanced," the ministry had said that the document had been drafted under pressure from European states and failed to reflect Tehran's comprehensive cooperation with the agency.

The statement had dismissed as baseless the IAEA's expression of alleged concern and repeated accusations against the Islamic Republic, asserting that the allegations lacked credible evidence and were being used for political maneuvering.

It had also condemned the report for relying heavily on forged documents provided by the Israeli regime.

The ministry and the AEOI had regretted that the agency had subjected Iran to its most rigorous verification processes, but closed its eyes on the Israeli regime's extensive nuclear arsenal.

The developments came amid threats issued by the United States and the regime, Washington's dearest regional ally, of destroying the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites under the pretext that the country had allowed its nuclear energy program to deviate towards "military purposes."

Iran, however, has reiterated that its uranium enrichment program was fully peaceful, transparent, and conducted under the full oversight of the IAEA.

Officials have also emphasized that there was no prohibition under the international law against the country's use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes.

Tehran additionally underscores that its defense doctrine principally excludes nuclear weapons entirely as per a fatwa (binding religious decree) issued by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.