Iran accuses IAEA of fuelling Israeli attacks with ‘biased’ nuclear reports

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi and accused the organisation of helping to justify Israel’s recent strikes by publishing a “biased” assessments of Iran’s nuclear programme.

Esmaeil Baghaei said the IAEA’s reports were used by Western powers as a tool to fabricate allegations of non-compliance and lay the groundwork for military action.

Responding to Grossi’s recent remark that there was no concrete evidence Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Baghaei said: “This is too late.”

In a post on X, he wrote: “You obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was instrumentalised by E3/US [France, Germany, the UK and the US] to craft a resolution with baseless allegation of ‘non-compliance’.”

He went on to say the resolution “was then utilised, as a final pretext, by a genocidal warmongering regime to wage a war of aggression on Iran and to launch an unlawful attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities.”

Baghaei accused Grossi of betraying the non-proliferation framework and said the IAEA had become “a partner to this unjust war of aggression”.

“Do you know how many innocent Iranians have been killed/maimed as a result of this criminal war?” he asked, warning that “misleading narratives have dire consequences, Mr. Grossi, and demand accountability.”