Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, has commented on a recent report by the IAEA and remarks by its chief.

In a post on X, Gharibabadi said that the “ambiguity”, “lack of access” and “loss of continuity of knowledge” referred to by IAEA chief Rafael Grossi did not arise in a vacuum but after “nuclear facilities under safeguards were targeted” by the US and Israel.

“The director general of the agency (IAEA), who has shown himself to be entirely at the disposal of the United States and the West, unfortunately never condemned these attacks,” he added.

“The Agency cannot both report on the effects of a military attack, overlook the responsibility of its perpetrators, and then demand that Iran bear the technical and political costs of the insecurity created by the aggressors. This is neither verification nor confidence-building,” the diplomat further said.