New York
\nThe UN nuclear watchdog\u2019s 35-nation board of governors has passed a resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its non-proliferation obligations, diplomats said on Wednesday.
\nThe resolution follows a previous one passed on June 12 last year \u2014 the day before Israel started bombing Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, soon followed by the United States \u2014 that found Iran in \u201cnon-compliance\u201d with those obligations. Reporting the breach to the council required another resolution.
\nWhile the Security Council is unlikely to take concrete action against Iran since its allies Russia and China are permanent, veto-wielding members, the move is an escalation in a diplomatic standoff between Iran and Western powers.
\nIran warned on Monday it would retaliate if the resolution passed.
\nIran says US is \u2018delusional\u2019
\nAn initial reaction by Iran\u2019s mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, however, did not mention retaliation.
\n\u201cOnce again, a political resolution on Iran is nonconsensually adopted by the #IAEA BoG (Board of Governors),\u201d it said on X, referring to the fact that the resolution was voted on rather than adopted without any country objecting.
\n\u201cThe current situation is created solely because of the criminal acts of aggression by the US and Israeli regime. The delusional objective of the US to force the great Iranian nation into \u2018surrender\u2019 and to plunder its oil will never happen,\u201d it added.
\nThe resolution text, proposed by the US, Britain, France and Germany, passed with 23 votes in favour, three against and eight abstentions, said diplomats at the closed-door meeting, adding that those that opposed it were Russia, China and Niger.
\n\u201c(The board) requests the (IAEA) Director General to report this resolution and the previously adopted resolutions \u2026 to all Members of the Agency and to the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the IAEA Statute,\u201d the text read.
\nWhile the finding of non-compliance predates the war between the United States and Iran and concerns Tehran\u2019s failure to explain uranium traces found at undeclared sites that the agency spent years investigating, there is now another standoff over IAEA access to the sites bombed by Israel and the US.
\nLack of access \u2018serious proliferation concern\u2019
\nIran has not let IAEA inspectors return to its bombed sites, including the three uranium-enrichment plants at the heart of its nuclear programme that were destroyed or badly damaged in the military strikes.
\nTehran has also not accounted for its stock of enriched uranium, some of which was enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from the roughly 90% of weapons-grade.
\n\u201cThe Agency\u2019s lack of information about these facilities and associated nuclear material and our inability to conduct verification activities at these facilities is a matter of serious proliferation concern,\u201d IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told his agency\u2019s board on Monday.
\n\u201cThe situation needs to be rectified with the utmost urgency,\u201d he added.
\nThe IAEA estimates Iran had 440.9 kg of uranium enriched to up to 60% before the US-Israeli attacks. That is enough, if enriched further, for 10 nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick. How much has survived is unclear, although the IAEA has said it believes more than 200 kg remains at one site.
\nWednesday\u2019s resolution specifically mentioned two previous ones: the June 12, 2025 text finding Iran in non-compliance and the most recent one, from June of this year, telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched uranium stocks and let inspectors verify them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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