The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has passed a resolution calling on Iran’s regime to step up its cooperation with the IAEA and reverse its recent barring of inspectors.
The resolution was passed with 20 countries voting in favor, two against, and 12 abstentions. It follows up on the last resolution 18 months ago that ordered Iran’s regime to comply with a years-long IAEA investigation into uranium traces found at undeclared sites. Iran’s regime has yet to give the IAEA satisfactory answers on how the traces got there.
“The need for the Board to hold Iran accountable to its legal obligations is long overdue. Iran must urgently, fully and unambiguously co-operate with the Agency,” Britain, France and Germany said in a statement to the Board on the resolution they proposed, according to Reuters.
In a statement, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), described the resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors as “inevitable and necessary but wholly inadequate.”
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that in view of the regime’s continued defiance and violations of UN Security Council 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 regime’s nuclear dossier be referred to the United Nations Security Council. “This action is long overdue,” she said.
The UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adopted on July 20, 2015, terminated previous UN sanctions against Iran’s regime and set out a process for monitoring and verifying its compliance with the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It outlined specific nuclear-related measures Iran’s had to take to curb its nuclear activities and allow UN inspectors to monitor its sites. Iran’s regime has been in breach of its commitments for years.
In September 2023, Tehran barred many IAEA inspectors from visiting its sites, which IAEA chief Rafael Grossi called “disproportionate and unprecedented” and a “very serious blow” to the agency’s ability to do its job properly. Grossi met regime officials in Iran last month in the hope of breaking a deadlock on the particles probe and the inspectors and to expand IAEA monitoring to parts of Iran’s nuclear program that were covered under the JCPOA.
The new resolution by the Board of Governors calls on Iran’s regime ” to reverse its withdrawal of the designations of several experienced Agency inspectors which is essential to fully allow the Agency to conduct its verification activities in Iran effectively.”
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 Iranian Resistance has revealed details of the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program in over 100 news conferences since 1991, including crucial, secretive sites like Natanz and Arak in 2002.
However, the west’s 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 to advance its nefarious ambitions.
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.”