ALWAGHT- A prominent Iranian MP says next week’s IAEA visit will not include access to nuclear facilities.
Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi announced that the visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team will only be permitted to engage in technical discussions and will be strictly barred from accessing any nuclear sites. He emphasized that, under parliamentary law, no foreign inspectors—including those from the IAEA—will be allowed to physically enter Iran’s nuclear facilities under any circumstances. These restrictions, he added, are final, legally binding, and cannot be reversed by the government or the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
The legislation, passed unanimously by Parliament on June 25, followed what Iran describes as a retaliatory halt to joint Israeli-US attacks on its nuclear facilities. The law suspends all cooperation with the IAEA until Iran's Supreme National Security Council confirms that the country’s nuclear security is guaranteed. The decision was in response to the IAEA’s recent resolution, which Iran claims was politically biased and helped justify the foreign aggression, while the agency failed to condemn the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed that no IAEA inspectors are currently in Iran and clarified that the upcoming visit will focus on negotiating the framework for future interactions under the new law. He criticized the IAEA for losing its impartiality and accused it of enabling politically motivated actions against Iran. Tehran, he said, is dealing with an exceptional situation where a Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member has been attacked by nuclear-armed states without proper international condemnation.
