The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, June 5, approved a resolution by three European countries against the Iranian regime. The resolution calls on the regime to increase its cooperation with the IAEA and to lift its recent ban on inspectors and diplomats.
During the three days of the Board of Governors meeting, numerous statements and warnings were made by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and representatives from European countries and the United States regarding the regime’s intentions behind violating its commitments to the IAEA.
In his opening remarks, the Director General of the IAEA expressed concern about the regime’s increased stockpile of enriched uranium, stating, “Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium continues to increase, including that enriched up to 60%.”
He added, “It has been more than three years since Iran stopped provisionally applying its Additional Protocol and therefore it is also over three years since the Agency was able to conduct complementary access in Iran.”
Grossi also stated, “There has been no progress in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues. Iran has not provided the Agency with technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at Varamin and Turquzabad or informed the Agency of the current location(s) of the nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment.”
According to Reuters, the draft resolution presented by France, the United Kingdom, and Germany initially faced resistance from the United States but eventually received its support. In a statement, the US ambassador to the IAEA said, “Given Iran’s lack of cooperation with the IAEA and our commitment to collective action in support of the Agency and the NPT, the United States supports this resolution.”
Simultaneously with the Board of Governors meeting, several US Senators submitted a resolution to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calling for the referral of the regime’s nuclear case to the UN Security Council.
The signatories of the resolution Biden administration to “pursue censure of Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), refer the issue to the United Nations Security Council, and reaffirm that all measures will be taken to prevent the regime in Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
The European Union also issued a statement expressing concern over the continued worrying expansion of the Iranian regime’s nuclear program, stating, “The EU is gravely concerned that the Agency is still not in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful, due to Iran’s lack of cooperation.”
The statement also added, “We urge Iran to resume the provisional implementation of the Additional Protocol and to bring it into force, to enable the Agency to provide credible assurances on the absence of undeclared nuclear activities.”
In a statement, Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) described the resolution as “inevitable and necessary but wholly inadequate.”
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that in view of the regime’s continued defiance and violations of UN Resolution 2231, it is time for the immediate application of the snapback mechanism. She urged that all resolutions concerning the regime’s nuclear activities be enforced and that the nuclear file be referred to the United Nations Security Council. This action is long overdue, she said.
Mrs. Rajavi noted that adopting a firm policy against the mullahs’ regime, including “the use of the snapback mechanism, referring its nuclear dossier to the Security Council, placing the regime under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, naming the IRGC as a terrorist organization, and recognizing the resistance and the struggle of the resistance units and the rebellious youth against the suppressive Revolutionary Guards, is an imperative for security and tranquility in this critical region of the world, and for preventing a belligerent dictatorship from obtaining the atomic bomb.”
The NCRI Secretariat’s statement also noted that the “policy of appeasement, endless negotiations, and undue concessions have allowed the regime to advance its nuclear ambitions without significant repercussions, providing it with ample opportunity.”
A month ago, a key adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the head of the regime’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations spoke of changing the regime’s “nuclear doctrine” towards building a nuclear bomb, brazenly stating that the regime “has the capacity to produce a nuclear bomb.”
It is past time that the international community puts the appeasement policy toward Tehran behind them and start supporting the people of Iran, who are the world’s main allies against a terrorist regime that is racing to obtain a nuclear bomb.