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IAEA chief criticizes Iran's 'bad move"

6/9/2025

On Monday, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, criticized Iran's collection of confidential documents belonging to the UN agency, describing it as a "bad step" that contradicts the spirit of cooperation that should prevail between the agency and Tehran.

The IAEA stated in a confidential report on Iran sent to member states on May 31 and seen by Reuters that it had "compelling evidence that Iran has actively collected and analyzed highly confidential IAEA documents."

The report stated that this "raises serious concerns about Iran's spirit of cooperation" and could undermine the IAEA's work in Iran. However, Tehran said in a statement to member states last week that the accusation in the report was "pure fabrication" and that it was made "without providing any evidence or supporting documents."

The IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors is holding its quarterly meeting this week. The United States, Britain, France, and Germany plan to propose a resolution for the board's adoption that would declare Iran in violation of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations, citing other shortcomings identified in the report.

"Here, unfortunately, and this goes back a few years... we were able to clearly determine that documents belonging to the agency were in the hands of the Iranian authorities, which is a bad thing," Grossi said at a press conference, adding, "We believe that such an act is not consistent with the spirit of cooperation."

Asked about the nature of the documents and whether they were originally Iranian documents seized by Israel and handed over to the agency, Grossi said: "No, we received the documents from member states, and we also have our own assessments regarding the documents, equipment, and so on."

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