IAEA’s silence makes it complicit in US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities: AEOI

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the International Atomic Energy Agency’s continued silence on US-Israeli attacks on the country’s peaceful nuclear facilities makes the agency complicit in the aggression.

In a post on X on Friday, the AEOI noted that the head of the organization, Mohammad Eslami, has so far written several letters to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, urging him to condemn the aggressors’ illegal attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites.

"The IAEA’s silence on US and Zionist regime’s attacks on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities is not merely inaction but clear complicity with the perpetrators," said the organization.

"This historic negligence," it continued, "erodes the IAEA's little remaining credibility."

Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the AEOI, said earlier that attacking nuclear facilities that are under IAEA safeguards constitutes “a war crime.”

The IAEA confirmed that Iran's Khondab Heavy Water Plant sustained severe damage and is no longer operational following US-Israeli attacks on the plant on March 27.

Iranian authorities reported that a yellowcake production facility in Ardakan, in the central province of Yazd, was also struck on the same day.

The IAEA, however, failed to condemn the attacks.

Khondab heavy water complex in central Iran had also come under attack during the US-Israel’s 12-day war of aggression against the country last June.

Human rights groups have repeatedly warned that targeting nuclear facilities threatens national, regional, and international security.

They say that the release of radioactive materials could trigger a large-scale humanitarian and environmental catastrophe, with consequences extending beyond Iran’s borders.

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