Tehran – Saba:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on Friday that IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi's insistence on visiting bombed nuclear sites under the guise of safeguards monitoring is meaningless and potentially malicious.
Araghchi's remarks, reported by Iran's Tasnim News Agency, came in response to Grossi's recent statements. The minister affirmed that "Iran reserves the right to take any necessary measures to defend its interests, people, and sovereignty".
"The Iranian parliament voted to suspend cooperation with the IAEA until the safety and security of our nuclear activities are guaranteed," Araghchi added.
He explained this decision directly results from Grossi's regrettable role in obscuring the fact that the IAEA had officially closed all past cases a decade ago. Through this biased action, Araghchi said, Grossi directly paved the way for politically motivated decisions against Iran at the IAEA Board of Governors and facilitated illegal Zionist-American attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
"Moreover, Grossi has astonishingly refused – contrary to his professional duties – to explicitly condemn such blatant violations of IAEA safeguards and its statute," the minister continued.
Araghchi held the IAEA and its director general fully responsible for what he called this "shameful" situation, stressing that Grossi's insistence on visiting bombed sites under safeguards pretexts is nonsensical and potentially malicious.
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