The IAEA Board of Governors is meeting this coming week during which the US and the so-called E3–the UK, France, and Germany–will be making an effort to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for allegedly not complying with its non-proliferation obligations. “Under those obligations, which are part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is legally bound to declare all nuclear material and activities and allow inspectors of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to verify that none of it is being diverted from peaceful uses,” AP solemnly explains. “The diplomatic move has been under consideration since June 2025, when the IAEA board found Iran officially in noncompliance with its nonproliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years—one day before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites.”
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna denounced the effort by the US and the E3 as showing “the complete failure of the snapback illusion” they have already pursued, referring to the provision in the JCPOA that allowed for UN sanctions to “snap back” into place if Iran failed to meet its obligations under the agreement. Not mentioned by the US side is that Iran was in full compliance before Trump ripped up the JCPOA in 2018.
