Iran has called on the international community to adopt a “zero-tolerance policy” toward armed attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities, telling a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors that the United States and Israel carried out 17 waves of strikes against Iranian safeguarded nuclear sites in 2025 and 2026, Al Jazeera reports.

In a statement, Iran’s delegation says one of the gravest attacks targeted a structure just 350 metres from the reactor at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which contains thousands of kilogrammes of nuclear material.

The IAEA Director General has previously said a direct hit on the plant could result in a “very high release of radioactivity to the environment.”

Iran says the attacks constitute war crimes and acts of aggression, entailing international responsibility and individual criminal liability for the perpetrators. It recalls that UN Security Council Resolution 487 (1981) condemned a previous Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear facility and obliged Israel to refrain from any such acts in the future.