Tehran’s standoff with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has entered a new height after Iran’s mission in Vienna slammed a joint U.S.-E3 draft resolution.
It also rejected the IAEA chief’s remarks about the United Nations agency being “completely blind” for over a year regarding access to Iran’s nuclear activities, with Tehran calling the comment “meaningless.”
The IAEA’s Board of Governors resumed its quarterly meetings on Monday (7 September) in Vienna, however, Tehran and the agency are again at loggerheads over Iran’s strict legislation banning IAEA inspectors to visit the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites bombed in 2025 and 2026 by Israel and the U.S.
While Iran’s nuclear programme is on the agenda, a joint move by the U.S. and the European troika of UK, France and Germany to table a draft resolution has further inflamed the standoff.
Iran maintains it's nuclear facilities are for peaceful purposes.
The Iranian delegation said that the strikes on its nuclear sites had "violated the UN Charter and IAEA Statute and had undermined the agency’s legal framework and nuclear safety principles."
The delegation referred to the attacks as irresponsible, warning of "potential consequences of normalising such attacks", according to state IRNA news agency.
The delegation called on the IAEA Director General, Rafael Grossi, to urge the U.S. and Israel to halt the attacks and threats, according to the WANA news agency.
“These steps were necessary to create conditions to implement safeguards in the country rather than trying to implement IAEA safeguards unconditionally under the current situation,” the mission said in a post on X.
In Tehran, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei also dismissed the U.S.-E3 draft resolution as “meaningless, illogical, and illegal”, saying Iran is ready to respond if the measure is passed at the ongoing IAEA board meeting in Vienna.
Tehran argues that a similar move in 2025 paved the way for the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran in February 2026. Tehran defended its restrictions on the agency's inspectors and heavily criticised the IAEA Chief.
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