Vienna – Iran View 24
Reuters has reported, citing diplomatic sources, that the United States and three European countries are currently pressuring the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors to issue a comprehensive report portraying Iran’s nuclear activities as exceeding peaceful purposes and highlighting what they allege is Iran’s lack of cooperation with the agency.
This overt Western pressure on the IAEA comes at a highly sensitive juncture in the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States. Analysts believe that Washington and its European allies are attempting to use the IAEA as a tool to force Tehran into hasty decisions regarding a potential nuclear agreement.
In a related development, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, speaking to reporters in Vienna on Wednesday, May 28, announced that a comprehensive report on Iran’s nuclear program is in the final stages of preparation. Grossi made politically charged remarks, accusing Iran of insufficient cooperation with the agency’s safeguards regime.
Despite acknowledging Iran’s ongoing technical cooperation with the agency, Grossi claimed that the forthcoming report would provide a detailed assessment of Iran’s compliance — or lack thereof-with its safeguards obligations. “The report will be published very soon,” he told journalists.
Observers in Tehran have condemned the attempt to politicise the technical work of the IAEA, warning that such actions threaten the integrity of international nuclear diplomacy and could derail delicate negotiations at a pivotal moment.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again reaffirmed its unwavering stance on its sovereign right to enrich uranium and retain enriched nuclear materials on its own soil, amid renewed pressure from Western powers.
In a message published on the X social media platform, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi addressed the three European signatories of the 2015 nuclear agreement, warning against any demand to halt enrichment activities within Iran.
“Any insistence on stopping enrichment in Iran would fundamentally undermine the basis for dialogue and future negotiations,” Araghchi stated.
Iranian officials have consistently emphasised that access to peaceful nuclear technology, including enrichment, is a right guaranteed under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and any attempt to deprive Iran of this right is unacceptable.
