Overview
- U.S. and Israeli military strikes in June 2025 damaged Iran’s enrichment sites and prompted Tehran to impose restrictions that stopped weekly IAEA inspections at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz.
- A confidential 119‑page IAEA assessment circulated to member states says the agency “can’t draw any conclusion” about Iran’s nuclear material because monitoring has lapsed for large stocks of enriched uranium.
- The last documented inventories showed 440.9 kilograms of near‑weapons‑grade uranium and 8,599.6 kilograms of lower‑enriched uranium at the affected sites, amounts the IAEA can no longer verify regularly.
- Washington and Tehran give conflicting accounts of diplomacy — U.S. officials say talks over access or neutralizing the material continue while Iranian state outlets report exchanges have stopped — and the IAEA says it has been excluded from those talks.
- The IAEA will address the verification crisis at its June 8 board meeting and has warned that any arrangement reached without full agency access would likely leave proliferation risks and enforcement gaps unresolved.