Why Iran Confliss raised new questions about the credibility of the IAEA | News Israel-Iran Conflict

Israel launched an unprecedented strike on Iranian military and nuclear sites on June 13, one day after the Board of Directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution saying Tehran did not comply with his commitment to nuclear guarantees.

Although Israel has not used the resolution of the United Nations Nuclear Curf to justify the attack on Iran, his Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised the resolution of the IAEA, the appellant “a necessary and late stage” which confirmed the “systematic program of illegal nuclear weapons” of Iran.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organization of Atomic Energy in a joint declaration condemned the resolution, the appellant “politically motivated”. The resolution, according to the joint declaration, “seriously undermines the credibility and integrity of the IAEA”.

Tehran insists that his nuclear program is for civilian purposes and that his installations are monitored by the United Nations nuclear guard dog.

Here is what the IAEA said about the Iranian nuclear program at the beginning of the month and its criticisms against its past actions.

Did IEA think that Iran was building nuclear weapons?

The IAEA cannot fully assess the nuclear energy programs of Iran, because Tehran interrupted its implementation of the additional protocol in February 2021, which enabled the IEA improved inspection rights – including SNAP inspections and continuous monitoring.

Iran continued to comply with the full agreement of the IEA guarantee after 2021, which made it possible to access the nuclear sites declared Iranian (Natanz, Fordow, Bushehr) and also allowed surveillance and a routine verification of the declared nuclear materials.

During a press event in Vienna on June 9, however, the director general of IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the recent Iran’s incapacity to comply with the declaration obligations had “led to a significant reduction in the agency’s capacity to verify whether the Iranian nuclear program is entirely peaceful”.

At the meeting of the Council of Governors of the AIEA (which took place from June 9 to 13), Grosi said that Iran had “repeatedly not answered … The agency’s questions” concerning the presence of artificial uranium particles in three places – Varamin, Marivan and Turquzabad.

Grossi has also described “the rapid accumulation of highly enriched uranium Iranium” as a “serious concern”, referring to the 60% pure uranium enrichment installations Fordow and Natanz.

In 2023, the IAEA had discovered 83.7% of pure uranium particles to Fordow – Almost the 90% purity required to make an atomic bomb.

On June 12, one day before Israel’s attacks on Iranian nuclear installations, the IAEA board of directors after a resolution declaring that Tehran violated his obligations of non-proliferation.

The Hachem Ahelbarra of Al Jazeera, postponing from Vienna on June 12, noted that it was the first time in almost 20 years that the IAEA, which has monitored the nuclear program of Iran, accused Tehran of raping its non-proliferation obligations.

Last week, however, Grosi stressed that the IAEA had found no evidence of the production of Iranian nuclear weapons.

In a Interview with Al Jazeera On June 19, Grosi was categorical that the alleged violations of Iran of his insurance had not led his agency to conclude that Tehran was building bombs.

“We have not seen any elements to allow ourselves, as an inspectors, to affirm that there was a nuclear weapon which was manufactured or produced somewhere in Iran,” he said.

The United States Vice-President JD Vance invoked the resolution of the IAEA to plead for military action against Iran.

“They were found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a right organization,” he published on June 17.

The American president ordered his soldiers to bomb three Iranian sites on June 22 – a decision greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made allegations for decades that Iran was at dawn to manufacture nuclear weapons.

Trump said nuclear sites had been “erased” and that the Iranian nuclear program had been found by decades.

How did Iran replied?

On June 23, the Iranian National Security Committee approved the outline of a bill designed to suspend Tehran’s cooperation with the United Nations nuclear guard dog, Ebrahim Rezaei, a Committee spokesman, told the Tasnim news agency.

Rezaei said that, according to the bill, the installation of surveillance cameras, authorize inspections and submitting reports to the IAEA is suspended as long as the safety of nuclear installations is not guaranteed. Iran joined the IAEA in 1959.

In particular, Rezaei said that Iran affirms its right, as a signatory of 1968 to the UN non-proliferation Treaty (TNP), to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including uranium enrichment.

Parliament must always approve the bill to withdraw TNP in a plenary.

Tehran has long complained that the treaty did not protect him from attacks by a country with a nuclear arsenal, the United States, and another largely raw having one, Israel.

In addition, the Iranian authorities said that Grosi sought to become the next UN secretary general, and therefore sacrifice the integrity of the nuclear guard dog by adopting a pro-Western rhetoric to gain a personal favor.

On June 1, the head of the Iranian atomic energy organization, Mohammad Eslami, said on state television: “Rafael Grossi (east) motivated by his ambitions and a strong desire to become the UN secretary general, seeks to obtain the approval of some specific countries and to align with their objectives.”

Has the controversy of the IAEA skirt been on the Fukushima disaster?

In June 2023, the Japanese government began to release treated, but still radioactive water, from the ruined nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific Ocean.

The IAEA gave controversial plan the green light following a two -year exam.

At the time, Grosi said that the agency’s security examination had concluded that the plan was “in accordance with international relevant safety standards … (and) controlled and progressive discharges of treated water at sea would have a negligible radiological impact on people and the environment”.

Over 1.3 million tonnes of water had accumulated at the Fukushima factory from a March 2011 tsunami destroyed the electricity and cooling systems of the power plant and triggered the The worst nuclear disaster in the world from Chornobyl.

The liberation of Water, which began in August 2023, met with fierce resistance from the neighbors of Japan and Nations of the Pacific Island as well as fishing and agriculture Communities in and around Fukushimawhich fears for their livelihoods.

Beijing, in particular, was a fierce critic of the water discharge plan. In a statement following the IAEA report in July 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry reprimanded its “hasty release”, saying that it “did not fully reflect the opinions of experts”.

Are there echoes of Iraq in the current debate on Iran?

For several observers, there are.

In the example of the 2003 Iraq Iraq invasion, the United States and the United Kingdom said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including chemical weapons, in addition to pursuing a nuclear weapon program.

These statements were central to justifying military action under the argument that Iraq was an imminent threat to regional and global security.

Towards the end of 2002, the IAEA carried out several inspections of the Iraqi weapons programs.

In early 2003, they established the existence of aluminum tubes with high tolerance in Iraq. In theory, these can be used to enrich uranium for use in a nuclear warhead.

Aluminum tubes have become a cornerstone of the mandate in Iraq of the Bush administration. As the only physical evidence that the United States could brandish, it gave credibility to the apocalyptic imagery invoked by President George W Bush and his advisers.

The tubes were “only adapted to nuclear weapons programs”, Condoleezza Rice, the American national security advisor, explained the CNN on September 8, 2002. “We do not want the smoking pistol to be a cloud of mushrooms.”

For its part, the IAEA refuted the theory that the tubes were intended for use in a nuclear program. And after the invasion, in -depth research has found no active ADM program in Iraq.