Iran is calling for Israeli nuclear facilities to be placed under the oversight of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Iranian envoy to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani.
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Iran is calling for Israeli nuclear facilities to be placed under the oversight of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Iranian permanent representative to the United Nationas, Amir Saeid Iravani, said on Sunday.

Iran insists that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) launch an investigation against the United States and take relevant measures following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, chief the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said in a letter to the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.

According to the Tasnim news agency, which saw the document, Eslami expressed protest against the attacks on facilities in Nataz, Fordow, and Isfahan, slamming the United States’ actions as a flagrant violation of international law, which prohibits attacks on civilian nuclear infrastructure, TASS quotes.

The AEOI chief also stressed that his country reserves the right to defend its own national interests, including potential measures against the IAEA chief’s "personal inaction and complicity.".

“We call on Israel to open its nuclear facilities to prove non-violation of the NPT” – Union of 57 Islamic countries adopted a resolution in Istanbul.
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The Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has adopted a joint resolution regarding the Israeli and American bombing of Iran.

The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the 57 OIC countries was held in Istanbul, chaired by Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

The joint resolution adopted by the OIC openly condemned both the start of Israeli bombing of Iran and the subsequent entry of the United States of America into the war.

From the resolution:

“The countries of the Islamic world stand in solidarity with Tehran. It has been subjected to aggression that must be stopped immediately. It violates the principles of state sovereignty, the UN Charter, and UN Security Council resolutions.”

The document adopted by the OIC also contains a direct appeal to Israel. The appeal calls on the Israeli authorities to “demonstrate their openness to the world and to follow the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”:

“We call on Israel to open all its nuclear facilities to monitoring under comprehensive IAEA safeguards as evidence of non-violation of the NPT.”

The OIC notes that if Israel itself violates the NPT, then all its claims against Iran look, to put it mildly, unfounded. At the same time, the OIC recalled that the IAEA mission worked in Iran for a long time, but, as the head of the organization Rafael Grossi recently stated, did not find evidence of Iran developing nuclear weapons.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has formally condemned the United States for its "brutal military aggression" against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan.

In a scathing letter addressed to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi Sunday, the AEOI asserted Washington has committed a "flagrant violation" of the UN Charter and international law, stressing that the U.S., as a permanent UN Security Council member, had betrayed its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).  

The letter demanded immediate condemnation of the attacks and legal action against "criminal complicity" by the IAEA leadership.

The U.S. strikes, launched in the early hours of Sunday using reportedly B-2 stealth bombers, 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs, and Tomahawk missiles launched from submarines, targeted Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz.

The AEOI, in a social media statement hours after the U.S. strikes, reaffirmed Iran’s unwavering commitment to peaceful nuclear advancement: "With reliance on the efforts of the nuclear scientists of the homeland, we will continue the path of developing peaceful nuclear technology for the Iranian people with strength. The desperate attacks of the enemies cannot rival the will of this nation."

The AEOI’s letter excoriated the IAEA for "repeated negligence" after Iran had forewarned the agency of Israeli threats to nuclear infrastructure.

It emphasized that Iran would pursue legal action through international bodies against Grossi’s "collusion" in the attacks.

The Organization also urged "peace-loving nations" to uphold the NPT, implicitly contrasting Iran’s adherence to the treaty with Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal and refusal to join the accord.

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