Stammered answers and dodging; Grossi's justification on attacking Iran's nuclear facilities

Pars Today- Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an interview with the French TV channel LCI, said that he cannot confirm if Iran is making an atomic bomb.

According to Pars Today, quoting from Tasnim news agency, Rafael Grossi, in response to a few challenging questions on whether Iran is ready to make an atomic bomb, was perplexed and, while stuttering, tried to dodge through going to irrelevant issues and justifying his report.

In response to whether Iran is making an atomic bomb, he said, "I cannot approve it. It is not honest to say that they have prepared an atomic bomb."

The IAEA chief, in reaction to the interviewer who said that the viewers say, "Here we are! We launched a bombing operation in doubt", Grossi claimed, "There is a third situation in nuclear strategy called the "hidden" or "un-appeared" situation. It means that you haven't reached the phase but you have every facility and technology that (if you wish) you can have it. They have a fatwa about prohibition of weapons of mass destruction."

The IAEA director general in response to the question, "Do you agree that Israelis decided to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities in this doubtful situation", without condemning the aggression, he said, "I don't deem it in this way. I understand the argument, but if you mean to agree means to justify the attack, I should say that I am a "diplomat" and in my view, there has been a diplomatic route, and finally what has happened, has just happened!!!"

When Grossi was asked, "You say that we could continue negotiation, but they [Zionists] quickly decided to bomb", claimed, "As the director general of the IAEA, I cannot say that the solution is a military one. I am not in the position to criticize. My position is to guarantee with a strong verification tool that they won't have an atomic weapon. But, till the beginning of military activities (illegal aggressive attack by the fake Zionist regime) Iran didn't cooperate in the needed way and I have said this publicly, too."

Grossi has expressed these remarks while, accordingly to the rules, he is obligated to probe the aggression against a member state of the IAEA and NPT. On the contrary, not only he has not condemned the aggressive attacks by the Zionist regime and the US on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, he has actually eased and paved the way for these illegal actions.

The IAEA chief, through his politicized and untechnical report, caused this aggression.

Refusing to use the word "war" and the name of "Israel" as the initiator of war, and repeating third person pronoun and "military activities" instead of war clearly prove his siding with aggressors.

Earlier, Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, had said about Grossi's role in the recent war, "The IAEA director general, through biased action, set the ground directly for ratification of an anti-Iran resolution with political motives at the IAEA Council of Governors and facilitated the illegal Israeli and American attacks on Iran's nuclear sites."

Araghchi made it clear, "Grossi, in an amazing way and contrary to his professional duties, has refrained from clear condemnation of flagrant violations of the agency's safeguards regulations and its statute."

He stressed, "The IAEA and its director general are completely responsible for the hated situation of attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. Rafael Grossi's insistence on visiting the bombarded sites, under the name of safeguards control, is meaningless and can even have an evil intention."

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