Iran’s Permanent Mission to UN organizations in Vienna criticized the United States and the European trio of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (known as the E3) for their reported plan to introduce a resolution against Tehran at next week’s meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors.
In a post on X on November 14, the mission called the move “another mistake” following the reimposition of UN sanctions earlier this year.
Iran suspended its cooperation with the IAEA after the 12-day war with Israel in June, during which US strikes targeted three of its key nuclear facilities. Although Tehran later reached a post-war cooperation framework with the agency in Cairo, it abandoned the deal in September after the E3 triggered a mechanism within the 2015 nuclear agreement to reinstate UN sanctions.
The IAEA has since urged Iran to grant inspectors access to the bombed nuclear sites and to account for its stockpile of roughly 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. The E3 is reportedly preparing to table a new resolution against Iran at the Board of Governors’ meeting scheduled for November 19–21.
“This action, another major mistake after the so-called snapback, constitutes yet a new deliberate attempt to politicize the Board,” Iran’s mission said. “These confrontational tactics are misguided and will yield no advantage whatsoever to them.”
The mission further warned that adoption of the draft resolution would “unavoidably and adversely affect the positive course of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA.”
