Iran has repeatedly faulted the IAEA for not denouncing strikes on its key nuclear facilities and has accused the agency of passing sensitive information about those sites to Israel.
He added that pressure from three European countries, the US and Israel “is not important to us and has no impact.”
Eslami said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi should be held accountable, adding that Iranian nuclear facilities had been under IAEA supervision before the strikes.
“It is the agency that must be accountable and answer to the world,” he stressed, adding that strikes on nuclear facilities could occur in any country and that the agency must explain what procedures it had in place for such events.
Tensions dramatically escalated between Tehran and Washington since the June war, with nuclear negotiations also put on the backburner. Iran insists that talks can only resume once the US guarantees that the process will not be derailed again.
Washington has demanded that Tehran enter direct negotiations on its nuclear programme, while insisting that Iran’s nuclear infrastructure suffered irreparable damage in US strikes on three key nuclear sites inside Iran during the 12-day war.
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