(9 Jun 2025)
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Vienna – 9 June 2025
1. Wide of Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, arriving for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General:
“This case is different – here it’s a fact. We don’t have something that needs interpretation. Here unfortunately – and this dates to a few years ago I would say – where unfortunately we could determine with all clarity that documents that belong to the agency were in the hands of Iranian authorities, which is bad.”
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General:
“The board requested me to provide a comprehensive review on many things including how they have cooperated. We believe that an action like this is not compatible with the spirit of cooperation.”
5. Wide of Grossi listening to reporter asking question
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General:
“We’ve seen some reports on the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this. In any case, this seems to refer to Soreq which is a research facility – which we inspect by the way. Normally, people tell me you don’t inspect Israeli – yeah we do. We don’t inspect other strategic parts of the programme but this part of the programme we do inspect. It’s a research reactor and a research facility.”
7. Wide of Grossi leaving conference
STORYLINE:
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that the information Iran claimed it seized regarding Israel’s nuclear programme “seems to refer” to the Soreq Nuclear Research Center, a national laboratory for nuclear science established in Israel in 1958, engaged in nuclear science, radiation safety, and applied physics.
“We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this. In any case, this seems to refer to Soreq, which is a research facility which we inspect by the way,” IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi told reporters on the first day of a regular meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna.
“We don’t inspect other strategic parts of the programme but this part of the programme we do inspect,” he added.
The office of Israel’s prime minister did not immediately respond to a request for comment over Grossi’s remarks.
The IAEA has so-called “item-specific safeguards agreements” with Israel, Pakistan and India, all countries that are not party to the Treat on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
According to the UN nuclear watchdog, parties to this type of agreement undertake “not to use nuclear material, facilities or other items subject to the agreement for the manufacture of any nuclear weapon or to further any military purpose.”
Iran’s intelligence minister claimed without offering evidence Sunday that Tehran seized an “important treasury” of information regarding Israel’s nuclear programme, ahead of a week in which the Islamic Republic likely will face new diplomatic pressure over its own programme.
The remarks by Esmail Khatib follow Iranian state television claiming Saturday that Iranian intelligence officials seized documents, again without any evidence.
Israel, whose undeclared atomic weapons programme makes it the only country in the Mideast with nuclear bombs, has not acknowledged any such Iranian operation targeting it — though there have been arrests of Israelis allegedly spying for Tehran amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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