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IAEA Withdraws Inspectors After Iran Halts Agency Cooperation

The move deepens uncertainty over the location and condition of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi waits for an emergency meeting of the agency’s Board of Governors to discuss the situation in Iran following the U.S. attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities, at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Elisabeth Mandl/File Photo
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on board Air Force One on the way to New Jersey, U.S., July 4, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
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Overview

  • Iran’s parliament and President Masoud Pezeshkian enacted legislation requiring Supreme National Security Council approval for all future IAEA inspections and formally suspended cooperation from July 2.
  • The IAEA said its last inspectors departed Tehran on July 4 after remaining through a 12-day US-Israel strike campaign on the country’s nuclear sites.
  • IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has urged talks to establish modalities that would allow the resumption of indispensable monitoring and verification activities in Iran.
  • Tehran maintains its adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, channeling any future oversight through its Supreme National Security Council for security reasons.
  • Without on-the-ground inspections, the whereabouts and condition of over nine tonnes of enriched uranium, including more than 400 kilograms at up to 60% purity, remain unknown.