{"id":13994,"date":"2025-09-13T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/13994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:23:07","slug":"iran-considers-nuclear-inspection-access-urges-action-against-israel-israel-iran-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/13994\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran considers nuclear inspection access, urges action against Israel | Israel-Iran conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tehran, Iran \u2013 Iran\u2019s authorities are discussing what comes next following an agreement\u00a0with the global nuclear watchdog<\/a>, as they urge the region to go beyond issuing statements in reaction to Israel\u2019s attack on Qatar.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is heading to an emergency meeting of the parliament\u2019s national security commission on Saturday evening, with hardline lawmakers looking for answers as to whether the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be allowed to access nuclear sites bombed by the United States and Israel<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

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He\u00a0is expected to reassure the hardline-dominated parliament<\/a>\u00a0that no access will be given to the IAEA without strict permission from the top echelon.<\/p>\n

Araghchi had reached an agreement with the IAEA in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, to try to resume cooperation that had been suspended after Tehran accused the nuclear watchdog and its chief, Rafael Grossi, of having paved the way for the strikes.<\/p>\n

Grossi told the IAEA Board of Governors on Wednesday that the technical agreement includes \u201call facilities and installations in Iran\u201d and \u201ccontemplates the required reporting on all the attacked facilities, including the nuclear material present\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Araghchi told Iranian state television that agency inspectors have no access to Iranian nuclear sites beyond the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.<\/p>\n

He said case-by-case permission would have to be granted by the country\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, which includes the president, parliament and judiciary chiefs, several ministers, military commanders and those appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Araghchi also confirmed that Iran\u2019s high-enriched uranium is \u201cunder the rubble of bombed facilities\u201d, and said the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is investigating and assessing whether the sites are accessible or contaminated.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s \u2018snapback\u2019 and Iranian threats<\/p>\n

Amir Hayat Moghadam, a hardline member of the parliament\u2019s national security commission, claimed that Araghchi said Iran will leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if United Nations sanctions are reinstated against the country, according to the state-linked Tabnak news website, ahead of the meeting on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Araghchi and the foreign ministry have confirmed that legislation is in motion aimed at abandoning the global non-proliferation pact, but that finalising such a move would only potentially come if the \u201csnapback\u201d mechanism<\/a> of Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers is abused by European countries.<\/p>\n

\"AbbasIran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, during a meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, on September 9, 2025 [Khaled Elfiqi\/AP]<\/p>\n

France, Germany and the United Kingdom triggered the snapback mechanism in late August and were slammed by China and Russia<\/a>, the other signatories to the landmark nuclear accord that the US unilaterally abandoned in 2018.<\/p>\n

The European countries, known as the E3, gave Iran one month to reach a new agreement over its nuclear programme or face international sanctions.<\/p>\n

Iran maintains that the three would lose legitimacy if they go through with the threat, and will \u201cempower the US and marginalise Europe in future diplomatic engagements\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite the rising tensions, Araghchi announced on Thursday that Iran and France are close to agreeing on a prisoner swap and expressed hope that an exchange would happen \u201cin the coming days\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s top diplomat did not detail which French prisoners held in Iran would be released, but said the exchange would include Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian woman arrested in France over posts about Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Esfandiari, a translator living in the French city of Lyon since 2018, was arrested in February, with French authorities accusing her of incitement to and glorification of \u201cterrorism\u201d and \u201chate speech\u201d against Jewish people over posts on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Tehran calls her a \u201chostage\u201d, employing the word used by France and other European countries that have accused Iran for decades<\/a> of holding foreign and dual-national citizens in relation to espionage charges.<\/p>\n

\u2018Joint operation room against Israeli madness\u2019<\/p>\n

Fighting off surging pressure from the US and its allies, Iranian authorities have tried to warm ties with China and Russia, and to find common ground with regional players, particularly Arab neighbours, over Israel\u2019s aggressions.<\/p>\n

After Israel attacked Qatar for the first time<\/a> this week in a failed attempt to assassinate the top leadership of Hamas, Iran joined the chorus of regional and international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Ali Larijani, who was appointed Iran\u2019s security chief last month, went further on Saturday and issued what he called a \u201cwarning to Islamic governments\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolding a conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation filled with speeches without any practical outcome (as happens in UN Security Council meetings) in truth amounts to issuing a new order of aggression in favour of the Zionist entity!\u201d, he wrote on X in Arabic, in reference to Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the very least, form a \u2018joint operations room\u2019 against the madness of this entity,\u201d Larijani said, adding that \u201cyou have done nothing for the hungry and oppressed Muslims in Palestine, at least take a modest decision to avert your own annihilation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Qatar announced on Saturday that it will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit on Monday in Doha, preceded by a preparatory meeting of foreign ministers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Qatar\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari said in a statement that \u201cthe summit will discuss a draft statement\u201d on the Israeli attack.<\/p>\n

Iran said President Masoud Pezeshkian will represent the country in the summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran, Iran \u2013 Iran\u2019s authorities are discussing what comes next following an agreement\u00a0with the global nuclear watchdog, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,87,46,14176,47,43,8710,1823],"class_list":["post-13994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-qatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}