IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi holds a news conference after the first day of the agency’s quarterly Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 9, 2025. Lisa Leutner/Reuters
Iran announced this weekend that it was ending its relationship with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the aftermath of the strikes made by Israel and the United States on its nuclear facilities.
Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, took to social media platform X on June 27, stating that Iran’s parliament voted to end collaboration with the agency “until the safety and security of our nuclear activities can be guaranteed.”