IAEA calls for access to Iranian nuclear sites
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Al Jazeera
The International Atomic Energy Agency is calling on Iran to restore access for its inspectors to its nuclear facilities. The agency says it is urgent to address gaps concerning sites and nuclear material, particularly around an enrichment plant near Isfahan, according to its report cited by Associated Press and Reuters.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday called on Iran to restore access for its inspectors to its nuclear facilities, saying inspections needed to resume to monitor Iran’s nuclear programme. The appeal appears in an agency report circulated to its member states, Al Jazeera reports.
The IAEA is particularly concerned about an underground uranium enrichment facility near Isfahan, whose existence Iran disclosed in 2025. Inspectors still do not know its precise location, whether nuclear material may be present there or its status under international safeguards rules. The report does not, however, establish that enrichment is currently taking place there, according to Reuters.
Iran told the IAEA that inspections could not resume under the current security conditions. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran remained committed to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, while attributing the reduced cooperation with the agency to US and Israeli attacks in June 2025.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called on Iran to consider limited technical measures that would allow visits to resume and regular monitoring to be restored, according to AFP. Since the 2025 bombardments, the agency has been unable to verify the status of Iran’s stocks of enriched uranium at a level close to that required for a nuclear weapon.
