The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed a resolution demanding that Iran “suspend all enrichment” actions and allow inspectors to assess how much enriched uranium it holds.
The resolution states that a previous resolution “found that Iran’s many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran, as detailed in GOV/2025/25, constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency in the context of Article XII.C of the Agency’s Statute.”
The agency directed Iran to “suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development, as well as work on all heavy water-related projects, and to provide such access and cooperation as the IAEA requests to be able to verify the suspension, and Iran’s obligation, as set forth in UNSC resolution 1929 (2010) to comply fully and without qualification with its Safeguards Agreement, including through the application of modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements to its Safeguards Agreement.”
It further condemned Iran’s “continued failure to remedy its non-compliance over the past 12 months, including its failure to provide the IAEA with requested information and access needed to verify previously declared nuclear material that the Agency has been unable to verify for one year.”
Last year, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an order formally suspending cooperation with the IAEA.
Then-State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce condemned the decision, saying during a press conference: “It is unacceptable that Iran chose to suspend cooperation with the IAEA at a time when it has a window of opportunity to reverse course and choose a path of peace and prosperity.”
“Iran must fully comply with its safeguards agreement required under the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons), including by providing the IAEA with information required to clarify and resolve long-standing questions regarding undeclared nuclear material in Iran, as well as provide unrestricted access to its newly announced enrichment facility,” Bruce added.
