TEHRAN – Iran, joined by China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Belarus, has submitted a draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) calling for a blanket prohibition on all forms of attack or threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under IAEA safeguards.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei announced the move Tuesday on social media platform X, describing the initiative as a necessary step to uphold international law and defend the integrity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The resolution, titled “Prohibition of all forms of attack and threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under IAEA safeguards,” underlines that all states enjoy the inalienable right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. It further stresses that countries are entitled to effective guarantees against any attack or threat of attack on their safeguarded facilities.

The draft also reaffirms that states must refrain from attacking or threatening peaceful nuclear installations in other countries, highlighting the responsibility of the IAEA to ensure that nuclear activities remain free from disruption.

“These principles must be upheld,” the spokesman said, urging the international community to act firmly to prevent what he described as the “normalization of lawlessness” in global security and nuclear governance.

The proposed resolution recalls previous UN Security Council and IAEA decisions prohibiting armed attacks on nuclear facilities and warns that such actions not only violate the UN Charter and international law but also pose serious risks to human health, the environment, and international peace and security.

The initiative comes in the wake of June 2025 attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, which Tehran has condemned as unlawful and destabilizing.

On June 13, Israel carried out a blatant act of aggression, targeting safeguarded nuclear installations and killing a number of nuclear scientists, senior military commanders, and hundreds of civilians. Only days later, on June 22, the United States joined the attacks, bombing Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites in what Tehran said was a clear violation of international law, the NPT, and IAEA safeguards agreements.