Iranian Foreign Minister Says IAEA Resolution ‘Disrupts’ Cooperation

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday condemned a resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors, saying that it “disrupts” cooperation between Tehran and the global nuclear watchdog.

The 35-member Board of Governors passed a resolution drafted by the UK, France, Germany, and the US that called on Iran to provide “precise information” about its stockpile of enriched uranium and allow IAEA inspectors to access nuclear sites that were bombed by the US during the 12-Day War. The resolution demands that Iran take these steps “without delay.”

“These countries, through this action and their disregard for Iran’s interactions and good faith, have undermined the credibility and independence of the Agency and will cause disruption in the process of interactions and cooperation between the Agency and Iran,” Araghchi said after the vote, according to a statement from Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

Iran suspended cooperation with the IAEA following the 12-day US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic over the agency’s role in providing a pretext for the initial attack and its lack of condemnation of the US and Israeli bombings of Iranian nuclear sites. Tehran also suspects that Israel obtained information about the Iranian nuclear scientists it assassinated from the IAEA.