GOV/2025/25

The IAEA Board of Governors adopted a report from the Director General on May 31, 2025, detailing ongoing concerns regarding Iran's NPT Safeguards Agreement. The report, a comprehensive assessment requested by the Board in November 2024, highlights Iran's continued failure to provide technically credible explanations for the presence of undeclared nuclear material and activities at three locations: Lavisan-Shian, Varamin, and Turquzabad. These locations are assessed to have been part of an undeclared structured nuclear program until the early 2000s. The report emphasizes that Iran's lack of cooperation, including the sanitization of sites and the withdrawal of experienced inspectors, significantly obstructs the Agency's ability to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program. Furthermore, Iran's refusal to implement modified Code 3.1, a legal obligation, prevents the Agency from obtaining early design information for new nuclear facilities, further impeding safeguards implementation. Despite numerous high-level meetings and joint statements, the Director General regrets that no significant progress has been made in resolving these long-standing issues, noting that Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60%, which presents serious proliferation concerns.