Published On 12/11/2025
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Last update: 20:44 (Mecca time)
The International Atomic Energy Agency called on Iran to allow it to verify its stocks of uranium, especially highly enriched ones, noting that the verification process was “long overdue,” according to what Agence France-Presse reported from two agency reports that were not officially published.
This comes in light of the tense relationship between Tehran and the agency following the war launched by Israel, with the participation of the United States, against Iran last June. Tehran accused the agency of “betraying the nuclear non-proliferation regime and participating in the unjust war of aggression.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency said that it had a lack of information “relating to the quantities of nuclear materials previously declared in Iran within the affected facilities.”
The agency indicated that Iran possessed about 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched to a degree of up to 60% as of June 13, that is, before the 12-day Israeli war. But she has not been able to check the inventory since then.
Special Iranian capabilities
The agency explained that Iran is the only non-nuclear country that enriches uranium to 60%, which is close to the 90% needed to make a nuclear bomb.
The agency described Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium as a “source of grave concern,” noting that the process of verifying it was “long overdue.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said, the day before Monday, that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited a number of nuclear sites in Iran last week, including the Tehran Research Reactor, but he did not reveal the other sites.
The spokesman called on the agency to express its positions on the basis of “its responsibilities and within the framework of its legal powers,” and to “avoid unfounded speculation that is a repetition of the allegations of Western parties.”
The Israeli war on Iran came a day after the IAEA’s Board of Governors voted in favor of a text accusing Iran of violating its obligations in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Tehran denied.