Iran hardens stance against IAEA and its chief in wake of US-Israel attacks

Tehran has rejected petition for Rafael Grossi to sojourn atomic facilities bombed by Israel and US during conflict.

Iran has taken an unequivocal stance against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the country’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi summarily dismissing its main Rafael Grossi’s petition to sojourn atomic facilities bombed by Israel and the United States during a 12-day struggle earlier this month.

“Grossi’s insistence connected visiting the bombed sites nether the pretext of safeguards is meaningless and perchance adjacent malign successful intent,” said Araghchi connected X connected Monday. “Iran reserves the close to instrumentality immoderate steps successful defence of its interests, its radical and its sovereignty.”

In tandem, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Tehran had halted practice with the IAEA owed to what helium called Grossi’s “destructive” behaviour towards Iran, his bureau said.

“The enactment taken by parliament members … is simply a earthy effect to the unjustified, unconstructive, and destructive behaviour of the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency,” Pezeshkian told Macron successful a telephone call, according to a presidency statement.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Tehran, said the Iranian enactment is making it wide that the IAEA is an “international assemblage with defined responsibilities and these responsibilities are not governmental but technical”. But, helium added, Tehran views the atomic bureau arsenic an planetary assemblage “under immense [political] unit from Israel and the United States”.

Iranian lawmakers connected Wednesday voted successful favour of a measure to suspend practice with the IAEA, citing Israel’s June 13 onslaught connected Iran and later strikes by the US connected atomic facilities.

A ceasefire betwixt Iran and Israel took clasp connected June 24.

Since the commencement of the conflict, Iranian officials person sharply criticised the IAEA not lone for failing to condemn the Israeli and US strikes, but besides for passing a solution connected June 12 accusing Tehran of non-compliance with its atomic obligations, the time earlier Israel attacked.

‘Anger of Iranian nationalist opinion’

In the meantime, France, Germany and Britain person decried “threats” made against Grossi.

“France, Germany and the United Kingdom condemn threats against the manager wide of the IAEA Rafael Grossi and reiterate our afloat enactment to the agency,” Foreign Ministers Jean-Noel Barrot, Johann Wadephul and David Lammy said successful a associated statement.

“We telephone connected Iranian authorities to refrain from immoderate steps to cease practice with the IAEA,” they added. “We impulse Iran to instantly resume afloat practice successful enactment with its legally binding obligations, and to instrumentality each indispensable steps to guarantee the information and information of IAEA personnel.”

While nary specified which threats they were referring to, Iran’s ultra-conservative Kayhan paper precocious claimed documents showed Grossi was an Israeli spy and should beryllium executed.

Iran has insisted nary threats were posed against Grossi oregon the agency’s inspectors.

On Monday during his play property conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the Iranian parliament’s determination to halt practice with the IAEA reflected the “concern and choler of the Iranian nationalist opinion”.

He further criticised US and European powers for maintaining what helium described arsenic a “political approach” towards Iran’s atomic programme.

At slightest 935 radical were killed during the caller struggle with Israel, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said, citing the latest forensic data. The deceased included 132 women and 38 children, Jahangir added.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations said aboriginal connected Monday they supported the ceasefire betwixt Israel and Iran, and urged that negotiations resume for a woody to code Iran’s atomic program, according to a associated statement.

“We reaffirm that Iran tin ne'er person atomic weapons, and impulse Iran to refrain from reconstituting its unjustified enrichment activities,” the connection said.

Meanwhile, a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said the state is progressive successful efforts to scope an statement connected the Iranian atomic contented and a warrant against a instrumentality to escalation by each parties.

Pezeshkian issued an authoritative apology to the Qatari radical successful a telephone telephone to Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani aft the targeting of Al Udeid Air Base, the biggest US subject basal successful the Middle East, helium added.

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