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Iran’s nuclear threat is targeted because the surveillance agency lacks application

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Jerusalem – After 12 days of fighting, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the victory against the Iranian nuclear program.

Trump said three nuclear sites had been erased because Netanyahu has announced that Israel had “suppressed an immediate existential threat: both in the nuclear field and in the field of ballistic missiles” – achievements The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) has failed to reach around 20 years in Iran’s nuclear activities.

Dr. or Rabinowitz, a stock market for nuclear proliferation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Professor Guest at the University of Stanford, told Fox News Digital that IAEA “could, in itself, a country that wanted to divert nuclear matter and technology from its civil program to its military program”.

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Map showing the main nuclear installations of Iran

A card shows where the most important nuclear installations in Iran are located. (Fox News / FDD)

“This can warn, and that’s what he did,” she said. “Sometimes these warnings have led to the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, and sometimes they have not done so, but IEA in itself cannot do more than that – it is as strong as the members of the Board of Directors and the countries that participate.”

A few days before Israel launched its military assault on Iran in order to withdraw the nuclear threat – and conventional weapons, the world nuclear guard dog reported that Iran had approximately 408.6 kilograms (almost 901 pounds) enriched with 60%uranium, enough to make nine nuclear bombs.

The report, which also criticized Iran’s lack of cooperation with IAEA, prompted the agency’s council of governors, for the first time in 20 years, to declare that the Islamic Republic was in violation of its non-proliferation obligations.

holes and craters and the installation of enrichment of the Fordows

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a close view of the holes and craters on a crest of the Fordow enrichment installation in Iran after the strikes, Sunday June 22, 2025 (Maxar Technologies via AP) (Maxar Technologies via AP)

“We should not be surprised by this failure, and we must add to this failure, the United Nations failure,” said Dr. Yoel Guzansky, principal researcher at the University National Security Studies Institute Tel Aviv.

Guzansky stressed the fact that barely a week ago, in the midst of launching hundreds of ballistic missiles in Israeli cities and cities, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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“Iran was welcomed there and Israel was criticized,” he noted.

“It simply shows that the United Nations system has long failed and needs to reshape, redesign, reconstruction,” continued Guzansky, adding this compared to other UN bodies, “the AIEA is quite well.”

“It is not in black and white, he had some achievements, but it depends on your expectations,” he continued. “I don’t think anyone expected that IEA completely prevents Iran.”

Guzansky said that two decades of inspections and such reports had in fact enabled Israel and the United States to “collect information and an understanding of the Iranian nuclear program” – a fact that was tested in the last week.

A massive plume of smoke and fire rises at a distance in the south of the Tehran

A massive plume of smoke and shooting rises from an oil refinery in the south of Tehran following information that an Israeli strike overnight targeted the site on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran constantly argued that all of its nuclear activities were entirely peaceful and that it would never seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.

“The real problem here is not necessarily the AIEA is that Iran cheeks for 20 years and has not played a straight bat,” said Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society.

“Iran has confusing and deceptive and by developing programs secretly, to which the IAEA could not access,” he said, adding: “So, in many ways, it is not the fault of the IAEA, in itself, it has no capacity for application-its work is only to monitor.”

Mendoza also said that Iran’s ability to advance its nuclear ambitions and enrich uranium in terms of arms was “really the fault of the international community, rather than an agency”.

“It could have been repressed years ago, as we have now seen, whether by military or other means, to force Iran to comply,” he said.

“What it finally shows you is that when you have an international criminal who continues to want to play the system, the only way to treat them is to explode the system and say:” Okay, you want to play in this way “, well, here is our answer.”

UN Rafael nuclear watchdog on Iran

June 9, 2025; Austria, Wien: Rafael Grossi is increasingly concerned about the Iranian nuclear program. (Albert Otti / Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

The director of IAEA says that Uranium enriched with Iran cannot be located after the American military strikes

Despite the successful use of the strength of the United States and Israel, the AIEA has prevented its actions.

During an emergency session of the members of the agency’s board of directors on Monday, Rafael Grossi, the director general of the IAEA, still urged diplomacy and the warning that the fighting risked “the collapse of the global nuclear non-proliferation”.

“There is still a path for diplomacy, we must take it, if not violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels, and the global non-proliferation regime that has supported international security for more than half a century could collapse and fall,” he said, without a word on the lack of transarries of Iran and his clear violation of international agreements for more than two decades.

A Ghadr-H missile, a center, a Sejjil missile and a portrait of the Iranian supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are exhibited for the annual defense week, marking the 37th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War of the 80s, in Baharestan Sq. In Tehran, Iran, Sunday, September 24, 2017. In public the sophisticated S-300 Russian manufacturing airfense system in the country. (AP photo / Vahid Salemi)

A Ghadr-H missile, a center, a sejjil missile and a portrait of the Iranian supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are exhibited for the annual defense week, marking the 37th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq War of the 80s, in Baharestan Sq. In Tehran, Iran, Sunday, September 24, 2017 (AP)

But on Tuesday, two days after the US army made massive precision strikes on three key nuclear sites in Iran, Grosi told Martha MacCallum in Fox News that his agency did not know where nearly 900 pounds of potentially enriched uranium were now found American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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“Like all the international organizations that condemned and Israeli, these organizations exist for the purposes only of diplomacy,” said Mendoza, adding: “The agency has no military function. This did not cover it.

AIAA responses were not immediately answered on Wednesday.

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