IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s statement refutes claims made by Israel and US President Donald Trump.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found no evidence that Iran is making a “systematic effort” to produce a nuclear weapon, according to the agency’s chief, Rafael Grossi.
Israel began bombing Iran on Friday, asserting that the country was on the brink of developing a nuclear bomb. The sides have been exchanging retaliatory strikes ever since.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he believes Tehran was “very close” to obtaining the nuclear weapon, contradicting early statements from his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who stated that Iran “is not building” one. Iranian authorities insist that their nuclear program is purely peaceful and that they have every right to pursue it.
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Grossi said that, currently, “there is this competition about who is wrong or right about the time that would be needed” for Iran to produce a nuclear bomb.
“Certainly, it was not for tomorrow, maybe not a matter of years,” he noted.
The Iranians may have enough enriched uranium, but in order to turn it into a nuclear weapon, technology and extensive testing is also required, the IAEA chief explained.
Despite inspecting Iran’s nuclear sites for more than two decades, the UN watchdog “did not have… any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon” on the part of Iran, he said.
“What we are telling you is what we have been able to prove. The material is there. There have been, in the past, some activities related to the development of nuclear weapons, but we did not have, at this point, these elements,” Grossi stressed.
A day before Israel’s initial attack on Iran, the IAEA passed a resolution declaring that Tehran was not complying with its obligations concerning nuclear non-proliferation. Among other things, the agency noted that Iran had “repeatedly” been unable to prove that its nuclear material was not being diverted for further enrichment for military use.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said last weekend that Tehran will limit its cooperation with IAEA due to the agency’s reluctance to condemn Israel’s attacks on the country’s nuclear sites. The UN watchdog’s conduct “makes no sense,” he stated.
“We could not affirm that there is any systematic effort in Iran at the moment to manufacture a nuclear weapon”, says Director General of the @iaeaorg Rafael Grossi.
He adds that Iran is reaching 60% Uranium enrichment. pic.twitter.com/jUMES7YqzY
— Yalda Hakim (@SkyYaldaHakim) June 18, 2025
Sounds like Iraq, Libya, Tony Blair all over again.
Exactly my thoughts too. 😡
I couldn’t agree more. Back then they called it weapons of mass destruction. It a lie. A lie to capture land and all its resources. A lie to take control and replace a foreign government.
To murder men, women and children. To destroy homes, businesses, schools, hospitals. To enslave a whole nation.
These are the facts, this is the truth.
Your sons are being sacrificed to fill the pockets of the Rothchilds.
Teach your children , teach your friends, teach your workmates the truth abour the people who own you, government , institutions . Their goel is to own everything, everyone and all natural resources under a one world government.
You will own nothing and you will be unhappy.
God is watching and so is the devil. Received the light and pass it on.
Only low IQ idiots believe Israeli/US war propaganda now. You have to be stupid to fall for the WMD trick a second time.
Sad thing is that populations have fallen for propaganda since it was invented.
There is hope that two imperative things for any awakening will pass quickly and reaction time will be reciprocal to intensity:
Pain & Loss of confidence.
For both there are zillions of possibilities.
As war is becoming digitized so will repression be.
Ai, digital currency and digital ID are the last nails in the coffin of freedom.
Your forgetting one thing Bloke, Iran has been yelling Death to America For 20+ years, including the West, A simple search on Iran’s objectives are well known, You can go around with your blinkers on, but for me, if a change in Iran happens, which it will, I will sleep much better
If you have sleeping problems it’s because you have erectile dysfunction
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Allan, maybe you need a look in the mirror to see your own blinkers because it seems to me that you have not much knowledge and comprehension of why the people of the land had enough of foreign interference. And that is the MIC, CIA, MI5/6, Mossad, Congressional Zionist bankster cabal.
Allan they are shouting Death to America because America has destroyed the Middle East. Half the world is shouting the same thing.
IF Trump goes ahead and begins attacking iran wholesale, then he will need to be removed from the White House at gunpoint by Law Enforcement who are loyal to those who know that Trump is doing the bidding of Israel, and NOT the Citizens of the United States.
Why would anyone believe the UN or the CNN unreliable so-called news. And it’s interesting how Tulsi Gabbard’s statement is taken out of context. The real question is why wouldn’t Iran agree to stop enriching uranium if they weren’t planning to use it to make a weapon of mass destruction. Quite simply they would have agreed and allowed inspection and there would be no fighting.
Are u smoking drugs?? The Iranians embarked on enrichment after idiot Trump unilaterally tore up the agreement without notice. You are an absolute clown if you are falling for this US propaganda again. Fool you once shame on you, fool you twice shame on you.
Iran has repeatedly opened its doors to inspection and signed nuclear treaties. Israel refuses to do both and have between 150-400 nukes. This is typical of the crybaby victimhood jews they project onto others false allegations what they themslves are actually doing. They are the great deceivers.
Be nice if you put you re name to your BS, wheres your proof that Israel has 150 to 400 nukes, did you get your info from the The View, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, A simple search makes you look silly,
@ allan mumby
You should not get personnal about somebody else opinion.
Nobody knows for sure, but it is generally and officially assumed that israhell developped nukes.
Israhell of course being in total illegality ( that from the ” creation” of israhell) refuses inspection of its premices.
Anyway, if israhell would not have a nuke, why the Samson option, hé ?
Yep, that Samson Option was in striking logic the give-away.
Liteally every US war in the last 60 years has been started using the exact same propaganda toolbook, and muppets like you keep falling for it
Iran is on record stating that nuclear weapons were not the reason for the enrichment program, but for nuclear power supply. They have also stated they do not want nuclear weapons and were prepared to sign agreements stating that fact.
Anyway, this is not about weapons of any type, it is about regime change and the expansion of the greater Israel project. End of story, done and dusted..
CNN are as reliable as the Hamas news bulletins in Palestine.
Yes its CNN but the UN inspector clearly says NO EVIDENCE. Sane people would stop at this point, but we are no dealy with sane people, jus demonic zionists and their low iq supporters like u on their couches watching FOx News while innocent people suffer again over netanyahus lies.
Evidence? What is evidence when allegations an be identifying as evidence?
why shouldn’t they have nukes anyway? if pakistan and north korea can have them then why not iran?
i doubt very much that israel would have attacked them if they knew they had nukes right?
israel has had nukes secretly for decades.
Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Centre, the Secretary of Défense, Donald Rumsfeld produced a memo showing plans for attacking seven countries (Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Syria & Iran) in five years. The military being the military has required some twenty-four years to carry out the five-year program.
A week ago, Israel initiated the last attack, this time on Iran on the fiction that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. They don’t and our entire and expensive intelligence groups know Iran gave up the program in 2003. An Israeli newspaper claimed forty years ago Iran was on the verge of having nuclear weapons. Bibi Netanyahu has made dozens of claims starting in 1992 that Iran was on the verge of nukes. It was nonsense forty years ago and it was nonsense a week ago. But Netanyahu is a serial liar who just happens to have the Epstein files on Donald Trump so Bibi owns Trump.
I’m told that Iran hacked into the Mossad computer system and downloaded 3TB of the Epstein files including Bill Gates, Donald Trump and John Roberts among others. If this is so, Reality TV is about to get very real.
We are clearly on a potential WW III path and Trump needs to listen to what seems to be his only honest cabinet member, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who stated two months ago that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Threatening WW III to end a nuclear weapons program that doesn’t exist seems like a fool’s game to me, but then again this is about attempting regime change and it will fail.
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Excellent analysis..besides;
If Iran needed or wanted a nuclear bomb, they would have purchased these either directly from Russia, China, India, or Pakistan (probably the latter..) or performed the purchase in the Black Market.
All of this brinksmanship is Israel playing it’s dirty little games once again.
IF this war goes full hot, one may very well be seeing the illustrations below in real life, unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5T5CF1jhTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fx-TP5KBZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA
Where’s Colin Powell and his vial of enriched uranium when you need him lol
Colin powel is at the moment burning in hell. Together with many such as Albright
And these are the very same People that are saying the Vaccine is Safe and Effective,
The non-existent nukes are a complete red herring for 2 reasons:
a) Israel & USA wanted regime change in Iran exactly as they did elsewhere in Middle East for over a decade. The false accusations regarding nukes were simply an excuse to start this war. This bluff is being called out now by Putin who has offered to mediate regarding any nukes but Israel isn’t interested because they know Iran doesn’t have nukes.
b) There is a broader conflict in progress which I would describe as unipolarity vs multipolarity – and the unipolar minority don’t want to lose the influence they have enjoyed for ages. This conflict is what the ongoing WW3 is primarily about. The unipolar forces (USA+EU) hoped to disrupt the development of any multipolar world order and that is the primary reason for launching this war against Iran. BRICS is leading the Global South’s multipolarity and Iran is a vital cog underpinning Russia and China who seem to be the de facto leaders of the Global South. Alleged nukes in Iran are an irrelevant red herring, just a false excuse to start the war which the unipolar countries desperately need. The article below describes why/how Iran has now become the latest line of defence for BRICS and the Global South
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250617/iran-now-first-line-of-defense-of-brics-and-the-global-south-1122272733.html
Israel is not a member of the IAEA and if it was would absolutely be in breach of everyone of its obligations concerning nuclear non-proliferation.
So Israel can just go f*** off and mind it own business,,, oh, too late.
Iran is having a Party
And has left the best wine till last
The Jews not Israel deliberately position their military assets amoung civilian infrastructure
And use their Own people as human shields
Co lateral damage to be used for propaganda purposes to harvest being a minority group always the victim
Just like they were responsible for killing their own people on Oct 7
IDF stood down
Hamas fake controlled opposition
Like NORAD on 911
But anyway these new generation Iranian missiles are deadly accurate with surgical precision strikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAZyw_16tA
Oh, and look, no high-rise is collapsing on its own foot print.
Should’ve employed Osama Bin-Laden to do the job with airplanes 😉
The U.N would be the last ones to know what’s going on they are a clown show.
Just look at covid.