Iran Rebukes G7 Over IAEA Demands as UN Envoy Decries Politicization

Overview

• G7 foreign ministers urged Iran to fully restore cooperation with the IAEA, resume inspections of nuclear facilities, and enter direct talks with the United States.
• Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the appeal as hypocrisy, blaming the 2018 U.S. exit from the JCPOA and alleging U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
• At the UN, Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani accused Israel and then the United States of carrying out June strikes on safeguarded facilities and criticized international bodies for not condemning them.
• Iravani said Iran’s reduced cooperation followed those strikes, cited a September 9 Cairo memorandum with the IAEA to structure renewed work, and argued European moves to trigger snapback threaten that progress.
• Talks with Washington remain stalled after five rounds in 2025 produced no agreement, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei signaled in September that further negotiations were not in Iran’s interest.