France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced during a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors that they have submitted a resolution aimed at clarifying the IAEA’s reporting mandate concerning the Iranian regime. These countries called on Tehran to immediately provide a report on its nuclear materials and to grant the Agency full access.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States stated at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting that they have submitted a resolution to clarify the Agency’s reporting mandate regarding the Iranian regime. They urged Tehran to immediately submit an accounting of its nuclear materials and to provide the Agency with full access.
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The four countries stressed that the resolution does not introduce any new demands on the Iranian regime and only emphasizes the implementation of obligations Tehran is already bound to—such as providing unrestricted access for inspectors, delivering accurate information regarding nuclear material accounting, and restoring essential monitoring arrangements.
The statement of these countries, reads in parts:
“Our message is clear: Iran must resolve its safeguards issues without delay. It must provide practical cooperation through access, answers, restoration of monitoring, to enable the Agency to do its job and help rebuild confidence.”
According to the four countries, the submitted resolution better defines the Agency’s reporting mandate so that regular reports can be issued on the Iranian regime’s compliance with the nuclear components of the reinstated UN Security Council resolutions.
They added that the resolution creates no new obligations but instead restores transparency and returns the reporting mechanism to its pre-JCPOA format, under a single agenda item—something they described as “essential” for the effective implementation of the Agency’s mandate.
The statement also refers to Iran’s continued non-compliance with its legal obligations under its NPT Safeguards Agreement and stresses that this agreement is “binding under all circumstances,” requiring the Iranian regime to provide full access to all safeguarded facilities. (For a non-Iranian audience: the NPT is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.)
The four Western countries called on the Iranian regime to immediately provide its special report on nuclear materials and to grant the Agency full access to nuclear materials and facilities.
Hours before the resolution was submitted, Rafael Grossi said in a press conference held on Wednesday that the IAEA had not asked the Board of Governors to draft a resolution against Iran.
He noted that the Agency is still not present at locations where it needs to be and has not been granted access to nuclear sites that were attacked.
Grossi emphasized that the Iranian regime’s continued membership in the NPT means it must comply with its rules.
The Director General added that the only thing the Agency can do is continue discussions with Tehran in order to obtain access to the desired sites. Grossi said that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium remains in place.
Earlier, Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian regime’s deputy foreign minister, had warned on Tuesday, November 18, that the agreement Tehran signed with the IAEA in Cairo in September would be jeopardized by the resolution introduced by the United States and the three European countries at the Board of Governors.
The Cairo agreement allowed the IAEA to resume inspections of all declared nuclear facilities in Iran, including those damaged during the twelve-day conflict and subsequent attacks by Israel and the United States.
But after the three European powers reinstated UN sanctions on the Iranian regime in late September through the “snapback” mechanism, regime officials said that the reimposition of sanctions would “certainly” halt this agreement.
