IAEA Board Demands Iran Report Uranium Stocks and Grant Inspector Access to Nuclear Sites

The IAEA Board of Governors passed on June 10 a resolution demanding Iran declare its enriched uranium stocks and grant inspector access to verify them, with 21 in favor, Russia, China, and Niger opposed, and 10 abstentions, according to diplomats at the closed session 123. The United States, Britain, France, and Germany co-sponsored the measure, adopted on the same day Washington and Tehran exchanged strikes following an Apache helicopter downing near the Strait of Hormuz 23. Iran's IAEA ambassador Reza Najafi called the resolution "politically motivated" and warned it "further complicates the volatile ceasefire and the unfinished negotiations" with Washington 3. The IAEA has been unable to verify roughly 440 kg of Iranian uranium enriched to 60 percent since Tehran suspended inspector access following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan last June 3.