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Iran has rejected calls to allow inspections of nuclear facilities bombed during attacks by the United States in June, saying the United Nations nuclear watchdog must first define \u201cpost-war conditions\u201d governing access to sites hit by military attacks.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran\u2019s Atomic Energy Organisation, said Tehran would not permit inspections of facilities struck by the US until the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) establishes a clear framework for such visits, according to Iran\u2019s semiofficial Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cIf there are established procedures for the post-war situation, the agency should announce them so that we can act accordingly,\u201d Eslami said.<\/p>\n He added that Tehran had formally communicated its position to the IAEA, insisting that rules must be \u201cdefined and codified\u201d for cases in which nuclear facilities under international safeguards are subjected to military attack.<\/p>\n During a 12-day war with Israel in June, the US military bombed three major Iranian nuclear facilities \u2013 Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan \u2013 using bunker-buster munitions. More than 430 people were killed, and thousands more were wounded in the wave of attacks, according to Iran\u2019s Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n The strikes followed Israel\u2019s surprise attack on Iran, which killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, including nuclear scientists, as well as senior military commanders, and targeted several nuclear programme-related sites.<\/p>\n Tehran denies seeking a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n Israel, meanwhile, is widely believed to have an undeclared nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n Following the US attacks, Iran expelled IAEA inspectors stationed in the country, accusing the agency of failing to condemn the attacks.<\/p>\n The Geneva Conventions prohibit attacks on \u201cinstallations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations\u201d.<\/p>\n Eslami said if the IAEA supports or tolerates military action against safeguarded nuclear sites, it should say so explicitly.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if such attacks are not permitted, they must be condemned \u2013 and once condemned, the post-war conditions must be clarified,\u201d he said, adding that Iran would not accept \u201cpolitical and psychological pressure\u201d to allow inspections before that happens.<\/p>\n Eslami also criticised a UN Security Council meeting on nuclear non-proliferation held on Tuesday, describing the statements made there as completely unprofessional and non-legal, according to Tasnim.<\/p>\n A key point of contention was the legal status of Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Amir-Saeid Iravani, told the UNSC that Resolution 2231 expired on October 18, 2025, and therefore \u201cceased to have any legal effect or operative mandate\u201d.<\/p>\n His position was echoed by the representatives of Russia and China.<\/p>\n Iravani said Iran remained committed to \u201cprincipled diplomacy and genuine negotiations\u201d, placing responsibility on France, the United Kingdom and the US to take steps to restore trust, according to the state-run news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n The US representative at the meeting, Morgan Ortagus, said Washington remained open to talks but only if Iran agreed to direct and meaningful dialogue.<\/p>\n \u201cForemost, there can be no enrichment inside of Iran,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Before the June escalation, Iran and the US had held five rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations, mediated by Oman, without reaching a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Iran has rejected calls to allow inspections of nuclear facilities bombed during attacks by the United States in June, saying the United Nations nuclear watchdog must first define \u201cpost-war conditions\u201d governing access to sites hit by military attacks. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran\u2019s Atomic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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