{"id":32721,"date":"2025-07-02T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32721\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:53:12","slug":"iran-president-pezeshkian-reportedly-orders-to-suspend-cooperation-with-iaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32721\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran president Pezeshkian reportedly orders to suspend cooperation with IAEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency<\/a> after American and Israeli airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities, likely further limiting inspectors\u2019 ability to track Tehran\u2019s program that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels.<\/p>\n

The order by President Masoud Pezeshkian<\/a> included no timetables or details about what that suspension would entail. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled in a CBS News interview that Tehran still would be willing to continue negotiations with the United States. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think negotiations will restart as quickly as that,\u201d Araghchi said, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s comments that talks could start as early as this week. However, he added: \u201cThe doors of diplomacy will never slam shut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pressure tactic<\/p>\n

Iran has limited IAEA inspections in the past as a pressure tactic in negotiating with the West \u2014 though as of right now Tehran has denied that there\u2019s any immediate plans to resume talks with the United States that had been upended by the 12-day Iran-Israel war<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Iranian state television announced Pezeshkian\u2019s order, which followed a law passed by Iran\u2019s parliament to suspend that cooperation. The bill already received the approval of Iran\u2019s constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, on Thursday, and likely the support of the country\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, which Pezeshkian chairs. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is mandated to immediately suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency under the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its related Safeguards Agreement,\u201d state television quoted the bill as saying. \u201cThis suspension will remain in effect until certain conditions are met, including the guaranteed security of nuclear facilities and scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what that would mean for the Vienna-based IAEA, the United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog. The agency long has monitored Iran\u2019s nuclear program and said that it was waiting for an official communication from Iran on what the suspension meant.<\/p>\n

A diplomat with knowledge of IAEA operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the situation in Iran, said that IAEA inspectors were still there after the announcement and hadn\u2019t been told by the government to leave.<\/p>\n

Israel condemns the move<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s decision drew an immediate condemnation from Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has just issued a scandalous announcement about suspending its cooperation with the IAEA,\u201d he said in an X post. \u201cThis is a complete renunciation of all its international nuclear obligations and commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saar urged European nations that were part of Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal to implement its so-called snapback clause. That would reimpose all U.N. sanctions on it originally lifted by Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world powers, if one of its Western parties declares the Islamic Republic is out of compliance with it.<\/p>\n

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, and the IAEA doesn\u2019t have access to its weapons-related facilities.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s decision stops short of experts\u2019 worst fears<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s move so far stops short of what experts feared the most. They had been concerned that Tehran, in response to the war, could decide to fully end its cooperation with the IAEA, abandon the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and rush toward a bomb. That treaty has countries agree not to build or obtain nuclear weapons and allows the IAEA to conduct inspections to verify that countries correctly declared their programs. <\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal allowed Iran to enrich uranium to 3.67% \u2014 enough to fuel a nuclear power plant, but far below the threshold of 90% needed for weapons-grade uranium. It also drastically reduced Iran\u2019s stockpile of uranium, limited its use of centrifuges and relied on the IAEA to oversee Tehran\u2019s compliance through additional oversight. The IAEA served as the main assessor of Iran\u2019s commitment to the deal.<\/p>\n

But Trump, in his first term in 2018, unilaterally withdrew Washington from the accord<\/a>, insisting it wasn\u2019t tough enough and didn\u2019t address Iran\u2019s missile program or its support for militant groups in the wider Middle East. That set in motion years of tensions, including attacks at sea and on land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iran had been enriching up to 60%, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels. It also has enough of a stockpile to build multiple nuclear bombs, should it choose to do so. Iran has long insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the IAEA, Western intelligence agencies and others say Tehran had an organized weapons program up until 2003.<\/p>\n

Suspension comes after Israel, US airstrikes<\/p>\n

Israeli airstrikes, which began June 13, decimated the upper ranks<\/a> of Iran\u2019s powerful Revolutionary Guard and targeted its arsenal of ballistic missiles. The strikes also hit Iran\u2019s nuclear sites, which Israel claimed put Tehran within reach of a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

Iran has said the Israeli attacks killed 935 \u201cIranian citizens,\u201d including 38 children and 102 women. However, Iran has a long history of offering lower death counts around unrest over political considerations. <\/p>\n

The Washington-based Human Rights Activists group, which has provided detailed casualty figures from multiple rounds of unrest in Iran, has put the death toll at 1,190 people killed, including 436 civilians and 435 security force members. The attacks wounded another 4,475 people, the group said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it appears that Iranian officials now are assessing the damage done by the American strikes conducted on the three nuclear sites on June 22, including those at Fordo, a site built under a mountain<\/a> about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Tehran.<\/p>\n

Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press show Iranian officials at Fordo on Monday likely examining the damage caused by American bunker busters. Trucks could be seen in the images, as well as at least one crane and an excavator at tunnels on the site. That corresponded to images shot Sunday by Maxar Technologies similarly showing the ongoing work.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writers Stephanie Liechtenstein in Vienna, Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, and Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[97,3489,396,64,69,10102,57,3464,14235,83,3461,6112,14241,50,375,27464,2062,80,365,1206,67,132,68,96,93,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-32721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","10":"tag-abbas-araghchi","11":"tag-bombings","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-energy-industry","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-international-agreements","17":"tag-international-atomic-energy-agency","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-iran-government","20":"tag-israel-iran-war","21":"tag-masoud-pezeshkian","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nuclear-weapons","24":"tag-planet-labs-pbc","25":"tag-political-and-civil-unrest","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-religion","28":"tag-united-nations","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-war-and-unrest","33":"tag-washington-news","34":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114783981468992674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}