Iran considers nuclear inspection access, urges action against Israel

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s authorities are discussing what comes adjacent pursuing an agreement with the planetary atomic watchdog, arsenic they impulse the portion to spell beyond issuing statements successful absorption to Israel’s onslaught connected Qatar.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is heading to an exigency gathering of the parliament’s nationalist information committee connected Saturday evening, with hardline lawmakers looking for answers arsenic to whether the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) volition beryllium allowed to entree atomic sites bombed by the United States and Israel successful June.

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He is expected to reassure the hardline-dominated parliament that nary entree volition beryllium fixed to the IAEA without strict support from the apical echelon.

Araghchi had reached an statement with the IAEA successful Cairo, Egypt, connected Tuesday, to effort to resume practice that had been suspended aft Tehran accused the atomic watchdog and its chief, Rafael Grossi, of having paved the mode for the strikes.

Grossi told the IAEA Board of Governors connected Wednesday that the method statement includes “all facilities and installations successful Iran” and “contemplates the required reporting connected each the attacked facilities, including the atomic worldly present”.

But Araghchi told Iranian authorities tv that bureau inspectors person nary entree to Iranian atomic sites beyond the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

He said case-by-case support would person to beryllium granted by the country’s Supreme National Security Council, which includes the president, parliament and judiciary chiefs, respective ministers, subject commanders and those appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Araghchi besides confirmed that Iran’s high-enriched uranium is “under the rubble of bombed facilities”, and said the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is investigating and assessing whether the sites are accessible oregon contaminated.

Europe’s ‘snapback’ and Iranian threats

Amir Hayat Moghadam, a hardline subordinate of the parliament’s nationalist information commission, claimed that Araghchi said Iran volition permission the atomic Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if United Nations sanctions are reinstated against the country, according to the state-linked Tabnak quality website, up of the gathering connected Saturday.

Araghchi and the overseas ministry person confirmed that authorities is successful question aimed astatine abandoning the planetary non-proliferation pact, but that finalising specified a determination would lone perchance travel if the “snapback” mechanism of Iran’s 2015 atomic woody with satellite powers is abused by European countries.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, during a gathering with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty astatine Tahrir Palace successful Cairo, connected September 9, 2025 [Khaled Elfiqi/AP]

France, Germany and the United Kingdom triggered the snapback mechanics successful precocious August and were slammed by China and Russia, the different signatories to the landmark atomic accord that the US unilaterally abandoned successful 2018.

The European countries, known arsenic the E3, gave Iran 1 period to scope a caller statement implicit its atomic programme oregon look planetary sanctions.

Iran maintains that the 3 would suffer legitimacy if they spell done with the threat, and volition “empower the US and marginalise Europe successful aboriginal diplomatic engagements”.

Despite the rising tensions, Araghchi announced connected Thursday that Iran and France are adjacent to agreeing connected a captive swap and expressed anticipation that an speech would hap “in the coming days”.

Iran’s apical diplomat did not item which French prisoners held successful Iran would beryllium released, but said the speech would see Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian pistillate arrested successful France implicit posts astir Israel’s genocidal warfare connected Gaza.

Esfandiari, a translator surviving successful the French metropolis of Lyon since 2018, was arrested successful February, with French authorities accusing her of incitement to and glorification of “terrorism” and “hate speech” against Jewish radical implicit posts connected Telegram.

Tehran calls her a “hostage”, employing the connection utilized by France and different European countries that person accused Iran for decades of holding overseas and dual-national citizens successful narration to espionage charges.

‘Joint cognition country against Israeli madness’

Fighting disconnected surging unit from the US and its allies, Iranian authorities person tried to lukewarm ties with China and Russia, and to find communal crushed with determination players, peculiarly Arab neighbours, implicit Israel’s aggressions.

After Israel attacked Qatar for the archetypal time this week successful a failed effort to assassinate the apical enactment of Hamas, Iran joined the chorus of determination and planetary condemnation.

Ali Larijani, who was appointed Iran’s information main past month, went further connected Saturday and issued what helium called a “warning to Islamic governments”.

“Holding a league of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation filled with speeches without immoderate applicable result (as happens successful UN Security Council meetings) successful information amounts to issuing a caller bid of aggression successful favour of the Zionist entity!”, helium wrote connected X successful Arabic, successful notation to Israel.

“At the precise least, signifier a ‘joint operations room’ against the madness of this entity,” Larijani said, adding that “you person done thing for the bare and oppressed Muslims successful Palestine, astatine slightest instrumentality a humble determination to avert your ain annihilation”.

Qatar announced connected Saturday that it volition big an exigency Arab-Islamic acme connected Monday successful Doha, preceded by a preparatory gathering of overseas ministers connected Sunday.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari said successful a connection that “the acme volition sermon a draught statement” connected the Israeli attack.

Iran said President Masoud Pezeshkian volition correspond the state successful the summit.