Iran and AIEA: the announced rupture and its consequences

The suspension by Iran of its collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), decided this week in the wake of the war with Israel and American bombing, was in a way the culmination of longtime tensions between Tehran and the UN agency. And the decision will have consequences that cannot yet be measured.

While the Trump administration, faced with questioning, continues to defend the effectiveness of American bombing on Iranian nuclear installations, new elements, which are likely to concern both the United States and Israel, arise.

The first is the secret maintained by Iran at the place where there are 400 kilos of uranium enriched on its territory. Theoretically, this uranium was in the sites bombed by American planes last weekend.

But as soon as the attack by US President Donald Trump, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohamed Eslami said that uranium was in a safe place, specifying that it was a it was a third enrichment site already implementedwhose location remains unknown for the moment.

We will start enrichment activities at the right timesaid Mr. Eslami.

An assertion confirmed by the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, who said that the nuclear program continued.

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The second is that of the suspension by Iran of its collaboration with theAieeaa gesture that made Iranian nuclear activities inaccessible.

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The Director General of theAieeaRafael Grossi, was informed by the Iranian authorities that they had taken special measures to protect the stock of enriched uranium, without giving more details.

Furthermore, Iran officially told him that he will not be able to go to the country to soon.

The Iranian Parliament adopted a law on Thursday which stipulates that The government is required to immediately suspend any cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The law was validated by the Guardian Council, an organization which verifies the conformity of the legislative texts with the Constitution. It now remains for the President of the Republic, Massoud Pezechkian, to ratify the law.

The legislative text specifies that this suspension will be lifted when the safety of nuclear centers and scientists will be guaranteed and the rights contained in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNP) in particular enrichment [de l’uranium, NDLR] will be respected.

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Iranian officials criticize theAieea not to have frankly condemned the bombing of nuclear installations by the Israelis and the Americans during the 12 days of war.

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Israel said that it had intensively bombed the power stations in Natanz, Arak and Ispahan and the Americans, those of Natanz, Fordo and Ispahan.

For his part, the head of Iranian diplomacy denounced the malicious intentions that he lends to the boss of theAieea.

The insistence of Rafael growed to visit the bombed sites […] does not make sense and can even hide malicious intentionswrote Abbas Araghchi on X.

Before war

Relations between Tehran and theAieea were very tense long before the Israeli attacks and the American bombing against Iran.

The Iranian government criticizes the UN agency for having voted a resolution against Iran on June 12, the day before the Israeli attack.

The resolution prepared by France, Great Britain and Germany, supported by the United States, condemned Iran For non-compliance of its nuclear obligations.

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The Council of Governors of theAieea called the Islamic Republic of Iran to remedy non-compliance urgently commitments made under TNP.

The UN agency said it was not able to ensure that the Iranian nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.

According to Iran, this resolution served asexcuse in the United States and Israel to attack nuclear power plants.

L’Aieea and its general manager are entirely responsible for this sordid situationsaid on Friday Mr. Araghchi.

In an interview with CNN in the aftermath of the American attack, Rafael Grossi declared that theAieea had no evidence that Iran was preparing to make a nuclear bomb.

We had no evidence of a systematic effort to switch to a nuclear weaponhe said in his interview with Christiane Amanpour.

On June 19, the head of the Iranian atomic energy organization threatened Mr. Grosi of legal proceedings concerning The inaction of your excellence personally.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif, who signed the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2015, asked for the replacement of Mr. Grosi at the head of theAieea.

Accusation of collaboration with Israel

The Iranian media revealed, in early June, that Iranian secret services had got hold of thousands of Israeli secret documents according to which the Director General of theAieea Collated with Israel on the Iranian nuclear file.

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According to media reports citing secret documents, Mr. Grosi made sure to align the positions of theAieea On the Israeli narrative under the influence of Merav Zafary-Odiz, the permanent representative of this country within the UN agency.

Iranian officials claim that the appointment of Mr. Grosi at the head of theAieea marked a change in attitude towards Iran.

In addition, the Iranian media reported that documents Confirm that Mr. Grosi’s cooperation with Israeli officials began in 2016 and involved coordinated efforts to shape accounts and reports on Iran.

For his part, Mr. Grossi offered another version. According to him, the Iranians have illegally obtained confidential documents from theAieea.

However, journalists opposed him that it would be the cause of Iranian confidential documents stolen by Israel and returned to theAieea. But Mr. Grossi replied in the negative, assuring that l’Aieea receives documents from the Member Stateswithout quoting Israel.

The attacks on Iranian nuclear installations have thus marked a culmination of tensions between Iran and theAieea. The dead end in which the relationships between theAieea And Iran will cover the Iranian nuclear program with an opaque veil, which can lead to other clashes.

With information from Tehran Times, Reuters and the France-Presse agency