Nuclear apartheid of the IAEA; Silence on Dimona, pressure on Iran

Pars Today – With its double standards, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not only failing to safeguard international security but is also enabling a racist system of nuclear apartheid.

The Zionist regime’s aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran—which continued with the full coordination and direct involvement of the U.S. government—immediately sparked an international debate on nuclear non-proliferation and the IAEA’s role in perpetuating this process.

This conflict revealed that the true purpose of the nuclear non-proliferation regime is to consolidate Western domination and imperialism over the world, suppress other nations, and monopolize nuclear science and technology under Western imperialist control. 

According to Pars Today citing Mehr News Agency, prior to the 12-day war, the IAEA and its Board of Governors issued a statement falsely claiming that Tehran had failed to meet its commitments regarding uranium enrichment restrictions and facilitating IAEA inspections.

Just hours after this resolution, the Zionist regime—the only nuclear-armed entity in the region and a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)—launched its attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, despite Iran being an IAEA member. 

This incident exposed the IAEA’s role in justifying the Zionist regime’s aggression and legitimizing nuclear weapons monopoly while threatening other nations. The only response from Rafael Grossi regarding the Zionist regime’s attack on Iranian civilians and nuclear facilities was to express "deep concern." 

Irish journalist Dylan Evans stated that the IAEA cannot be considered a neutral institution; rather, it operates with clear bias under the influence of Western powers, particularly the U.S., which exerts extensive diplomatic pressure on its decisions. The IAEA is deeply hostile toward Iran and frequently echoes Western, Israeli, and American security narratives regarding Iran’s nuclear program. This marks the fifth anti-Iran resolution issued by the IAEA in the past five years. 

Evans further compared the IAEA’s treatment of Iran and Israel, noting that over the past two decades, the agency has issued no resolutions against Israel’s nuclear program—despite the Zionist regime’s refusal to sign the NPT and its exclusion of facilities like Dimona from IAEA oversight. Israel’s nuclear activities remain outside the safeguards and monitoring framework of the agency. 

In 2018, the Zionist regime claimed to have provided the IAEA with a trove of intelligence on Iran’s nuclear archive, leading to expanded inspections and renewed skepticism about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities. The IAEA accepted these allegations from a non-NPT member that itself possesses nuclear weapons, blatantly violating its own claims of impartiality. 

According to 2010 WikiLeaks documents, Yukiya Amano, the former IAEA Director General (2009–2019), who had strong ties to the U.S. and opposed Iran’s nuclear program, shared sensitive IAEA intelligence on Iran’s critical facilities with American and Israeli spy agencies through Western intelligence intermediaries. 

The report concludes that Iran faces relentless international sanctions and demands without concrete evidence of any dangerous nuclear activity, while no global pressure or resolutions target the Zionist regime to force its NPT membership or inspections of its nuclear facilities.

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