Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused European members of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency of pressuring IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to issue a negative report on Iran, thus helping to pave the way for Israel’s June 13 attack on that country. “The Europeans have taken a purely neocolonial position…. They were actively preparing Grossi so that he would put the most ambiguously negative formulations into his report,” Lavrov said during an address to the Primakov Readings Forum meeting in Moscow on June 24, reported RT.
The U.K., France, Germany, and, later, the U.S., ran with the IAEA assessment and pushed a resolution through the IAEA Board of Governors that condemned Iran for allegedly violating the NPT, he added.
