The Islamic Republic of Iran enthusiastically condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a United Nations oversight body, on Thursday for passing a resolution condemning Iran’s illicit nuclear development — and announced plans to build a new uranium enrichment facility.
The IAEA passed the resolution after its director-general, Rafael Grossi, issued remarks to its board on Monday accusing Iran of, among other transgressions, maintaining at last three secret nuclear facilities, which he claimed the regime tried to “sanitize,” a sign that it was attempting to avoid appropriate IAEA oversight.
The resolution passed on Thursday was the first in almost two decades to find Iran in violation of its nuclear obligations and explicitly stated that Iran had committed “many failures to uphold its obligations
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