IAEA

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  • NPT 2025-09-14 21:05

    By Sasan Karimi 

    Enrichment under the NPT, JCPOA, and UNSR2231

    A legal and political reassessment in light of recent developments

    TEHRAN – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), established in 1968, continues to serve as the bedrock of international efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons while promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy. 

  • Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi (left) after signing a nuclear safeguarding agreement with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (right) in Cairo on September 9, 2025. 2025-09-14 20:56

    By Mona Hojat Ansari 

    Cooperation with IAEA still not a sure thing 

    Iran’s top security body says renewed attacks, return of UN sanctions will force country to ditch Cairo deal

    TEHRAN – The agreement signed in Cairo last week between Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi to resume cooperation sparked consternation among conservatives in Iran and placed domestic pressure on the Pezeshkian administration.  

  • Lebanon expert 2025-09-13 21:26

    Exclusive: U.S. isolation inevitable if ‘snapback’ mechanism revived, cautions nuclear physicist

    Dr. Khaled Hussein points to Washington’s domination of global oversight mechanisms and calls for respect of Iran’s legal rights

    TEHRAN- As debates over Iran’s nuclear rights and Western pressures on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) framework continue to dominate regional and international discourse, questions are being raised about the credibility of global nuclear governance. 

  • Araghchi and Grossi in Cairo 2025-09-12 19:23

    By Mona Hojat Ansari 

    After Cairo talks, a cautious resumption of Iran-IAEA cooperation

    Inspectors' full return to Iran hinges on sanctions and security body’s judgement 

    TEHRAN – After a meeting in Cairo between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi, Iran and the IAEA agreed to resume cooperation on Tuesday, an agreement that seemingly pleased Grossi but created a bedlam in the Iranian parliament. 

  • Ex UN expert 2025-09-12 19:21

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Exclusive: If IAEA remains politicized, safeguards system may collapse, ex-senior inspector warns

    Abu Shadi calls for nuclear-weapon-free zone in West Asia, urges equal accountability for Israel

    TEHRAN – Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently agreed to resume cooperation after the agency's inspectors left Iran during a U.S.-Israeli bombardment campaign on Iranian nuclear facilities in June, and were subsequently barred from re-entry. 

  • Man 2025-09-10 23:02

    Exclusive: New Iran-IAEA agreement removes agency’s pretexts, says nuclear physicist

    TEHRAN – The Iranian government has decided to begin working with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) again. This means they are now exploring the specific steps required to allow the agency's inspectors to re-enter the country and resume their monitoring work.

  • Araghchi in Cairo 2025-09-09 23:05

    Iran decides to resume cooperation with IAEA

    TEHRAN – Iran has decided to look for ways to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors back into the country, after it suspended cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog back in July following U.S.-Israeli attacks on its nuclear sites.

  • NPT 2025-09-03 20:11

    Parliament to back NPT withdrawal following snapback

    TEHRAN – A senior Iranian lawmaker has said Parliament will fully support any decision by the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in response to the reactivation of the snapback sanctions mechanism.

  • Grossi 2025-08-29 21:13

    Tehran Times exclusive vindicated: IAEA Chief declares UN Secretary-General bid

    TEHRAN – Argentine diplomat Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has officially confirmed his intention to run for the post of United Nations secretary-general when António Guterres’ term ends in January 2027.

  • Bushehr plant 2025-08-27 21:01

    IAEA inspectors to return to Iran for fuel replacement at Bushehr

    TEHRAN - After weeks of stalled cooperation, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been allowed to return to Iran, according to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

  • The front page of the Javan newspaper 2025-08-25 21:44

    Naval drill manifests Iran’s strategic power 

    TEHRAN - Javan wrote a commentary on the Navy's drill codenamed “durable might”. It said: One of the most important strategic decisions of the Islamic Republic after the 12-day imposed war is to try to determine the rules of the game at the regional level; an action for which the restoration and enhancement of combat and defense capabilities are the starting point and main support. Another important pillar is overcoming all-around threats of enemies, both at home and abroad, using internal capacities.

  • Iran's print media 2025-08-24 21:41

    Will there be another war?

    Khorasan raised a question whether the war between Iran and Israel will be resumed after a lull. It said: There are scattered reports about the end of the temporary ceasefire and the imminent resumption of war between Iran and the Zionist regime, but we must first distinguish between possibility and probability.

  • IAEA-Iran 2025-08-13 22:12

    Egypt is not mediating talks between Iran and IAEA, sources tell Tehran Times

    TEHEAN- Reports suggesting Egypt is brokering talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which are currently negotiating a new cooperation framework, are false, sources with knowledge of the talks told the Tehran Times.

  • Iran-IAEA 2025-08-12 19:24

    Iran, IAEA agree to continue consultations amid Tehran’s demands for new framework

    TEHRAN – Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi announced Monday that Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to continue consultations following talks in Tehran, marking a potential thaw in relations after cooperation was suspended in June.

  • IAEA 2025-08-10 22:36

    An IAEA official due in Tehran to discuss new cooperation framework 

    TEHRAN – The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will dispatch a deputy to Tehran to discuss a new framework for cooperation with Iran after the country suspended its previous cooperation agreement in June in response to the UN nuclear watchdog’s failure to prevent and condemn U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. 

  • Iran-IAEA 2025-08-03 21:43

    IAEA delegation to visit Iran without inspectors, Al Mayadeen reports

    TEHRAN – An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation will arrive in Tehran next week to discuss implementing Iran’s binding parliamentary law suspending formal cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, Al Mayadeen reported Sunday, citing anonymous sources.

  • Israel’s war against Iran 2025-07-08 11:21

    By Salman Parviz

    A timeline of the Iran-Israel war

    TEHRAN – Between June 13 and the following twelve days, Israel and the United States carried out airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, as well as the country’s civilian and military infrastructure.

  • Iran 2025-07-08 10:59

    By Salman Parviz

    Why Iran emerged victorious in its war with Israel

    A new-found unity among Iranians was the most tangible result of the war

    TEHRAN – The so-called ’12-Day War’ started with Israeli airstrikes against Iran in the early morning of June 13. The regime’s assault occurred just days before Iran and the United States were set to meet for a sixth-round indirect nuclear talks in Oman, sabotaging the diplomatic process and unravelling any potential progress made during the previous five rounds.

  • Merz said in a statement on June 13 that PM Netanyahu had informed him about Israel's attack on Iran 2025-07-03 22:57

    Tehran says Germany spreading 'fake news', sending 'devastating messages'

    FM Araghchi censures German's 'explicit' support for Israel attack on Iran's nuclear sites

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday dismissed as “fake news” a statement by the German Foreign Office that Tehran's move in suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency “eliminates any possibility of international oversight of the Iranian nuclear program.”

  • Grossi 2025-07-02 22:23

    Grossi could face trial in absentia for role in war against Iran

    TEHRAN – A senior Iranian judiciary official has said that Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), could potentially face prosecution in absentia for his role in enabling recent U.S. and Israeli military aggression against Iran.

  • Grossi 2025-07-02 22:16

    By Garsha Vazirian

    CIA and Mossad blinded

    Pezeshkian signs bill requiring Iran to suspend cooperation with IAEA into law

    TEHRAN – President Masoud Pezeshkian’s pen may have traced the contours of Iran’s break with an institution increasingly seen not as a guardian, but as a geopolitical saboteur—one with the blood of hundreds of Iranians on its hands.

  • Pezeshkian an Macron 2025-06-30 22:03

    IAEA’s double standards threaten regional and global peace, Pezeshkian tells Macron

    TEHRAN — In a scathing rebuke of the UN nuclear watchdog, President Masoud Pezeshkian declared Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a “natural reaction” to Director General Rafael Grossi’s “biased, unconstructive, and destructive conduct,” which paved the way for Tel Aviv’s June 13 aggression and subsequent U.S. strikes on its civilian nuclear facilities.

  • Grossi 2025-06-29 22:32

    By Bahram Moradi

    Grossi not satisfied with extent of damage to Iran’s nuclear sites! 

    As IAEA chief, Grossi is not worried about nuclear contamination in Iran 

    TEHRAN - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Iran could begin producing enriched uranium again in “a matter of months” as damage caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear plants was “severe” but not “total.” 

  • Grossi 2025-06-27 21:24

    Grossi is now justifying potential attacks on Iran's historical sites

    Iran’s former FM says the IAEA chief is a ‘disgrace’ to the UN agency 

    TEHRAN – The modern world, crafted in the image of the West, has always had its enforcers – figures who, under the banner of international law, primarily served the interests of Western powers and their prized colonial venture, Israel.

  • parliamnet 2025-06-25 22:01

    Parliament approves bill to suspend cooperation with IAEA after U.S.-Israeli attacks

    TEHRAN – The Iranian lawmakers in Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill to suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), following the agency’s politically motivated resolution and its silence over the recent U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.

  • unity 2025-06-23 09:55

    New mural shows Iranian unity, love of homeland

    TEHRAN – The new mural at Valiasr Square in Tehran was unveiled on Saturday with the images of martyred commanders and nuclear scientists, who have lost their lives in the Zionist regime's aggression against Iran, as well as the foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, along with people of every walk of life, all saluting by raising a hand to their head with a large flag of Iran waving on a pole above their heads.

  • Rafael Grossi 2025-06-22 23:25

    Iran blasts IAEA inaction in formal letter after US strikes on its nuclear facilities

    TEHRAN – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has formally condemned the United States for its "brutal military aggression" against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. 

  • Grossi 2025-06-20 22:54

    'Your deceit paved way for Israel’s attack:' Iranian politician tells Grossi

    TEHRAN – Abbas Akhoundi, Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran and former Minister of Roads and Urban Development, delivered a blistering indictment of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi on Friday, holding him directly responsible for enabling Israel's attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. 

  • baghaei 2025-06-19 14:47

    Iran accuses IAEA chief of betraying Non-Proliferation Treaty amid ongoing conflict

    TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has issued a sharp rebuke of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi, accusing him of betraying the principles of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

  • IAEA BOG 2025-06-16 17:46

    11 IAEA BoG members condemn Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites

    TEHRAN – Eleven member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) Board of Governors have issued a joint statement condemning the Israeli regime’s military attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities and urged immediate action by the United Nations nuclear watchdog and the Security Council to prevent such aggression.