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IAEA chief says information shows Iran has no ‘active plan to build nuclear weapons’
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says the nuclear watchdog does not have information showing Iran is actively trying to build nuclear weapons.
“We did not find in Iran elements to indicate that there is an active, systematic plan to build a nuclear weapon,” Grossi told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview. “We have not seen elements to allow us, as inspectors, to affirm that there was a nuclear weapon that was being manufactured or produced somewhere in Iran.”
Grossi made the comments a week after the agency’s Board of Governors declared Iran noncompliant with its commitment to international nuclear safeguards.
It based this assessment on what it called Iran’s “many failures” to provide “full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities”. It singled out Iran’s failure to credibly explain uranium traces detected at its undeclared sites.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry blames IAEA for creating ‘pretext’ for Israeli attack
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has accused IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and his organisation of being complicit in the ongoing conflict, saying their “biased” reporting on Iran’s nuclear activities was used as a “pretext” for Israel to attack.
Responding to Grossi’s recent comment that the agency has no hard evidence Iran is actively developing nuclear weapons, Esmaeil Baghaei said: “This is too late.”
“You obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was [instrumentalised] by E3/US [France, Germany, the UK and the US] to craft a resolution with baseless allegation of ‘non-compliance’,” Baghaei wrote on X. “The same resolution was then utilised, as a final pretext, by a genocidal warmongering regime to wage a war of aggression on Iran and to launch an unlawful attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities.”
“Do you know how many innocent Iranians have been killed/maimed as a result of this criminal war?” he said. “Misleading narratives have dire consequences, Mr. Grossi, and demand accountability.”
“You betrayed the non-proliferation regime; You’ve made IAEA a partner to this unjust war of aggression.”
DG @rafaelmgrossi:“We did not have any evidence of a systematic effort [by Iran] to move into a nuclear weapon.”
This is too late, Mr. Grossi: you obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was instrumentalize by E3/U.S. to craft a resolution with baseless… pic.twitter.com/A2cQcyqiFy
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) June 19, 2025
