IAEA Board of Governors’ Resolution Against the Clerical Regime: A Positive Step That Should Have Been Taken Sooner

Mrs. Rajavi: The first urgent step to prevent the regime from developing an atomic bomb is to activate the snapback mechanism and reinstate the Security Council’s resolutions concerning the regime’s nuclear projects.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), described the adoption of a censure resolution by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency against the regime—an action that should have been taken much earlier—as a clear testament to the accuracy and legitimacy of the Iranian Resistance’s stance on the objectives and deceptions of the mullahs’ regime in the nuclear field.
The regime’s tricks and its intensified, all-out efforts to prevent the resolution’s adoption ultimately proved futile.
The resolution condemned the mullahs’ regime for repeated violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), non-cooperation with IAEA investigations, and non-compliance with previous resolutions, including that of June 2024. The resolution requests a comprehensive assessment of the regime’s nuclear program, including undeclared nuclear activities, and a full report on its cooperation with the IAEA by the March 2025 Board of Governors or at the latest by spring 2025.
Mrs. Rajavi, emphasized at the European Parliament on November 20, 2024, the first urgent and necessary step to prevent a terrorist dictatorship from acquiring an atomic bomb, is to reactivate the snapback mechanism as stipulated in UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and reinstate six Security Council resolutions on the regime’s nuclear projects.
Following the adoption of the resolution by the Board of Governors, Mrs. Rajavi stated that it is time for the UN Security Council to address the Iranian regime under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter to ensure international peace and security.
She also commended freedom-loving Iranians who, as in previous years, have tirelessly echoed the demands of the Iranian people in front of the IAEA in recent days, and expressed her gratitude for their unwavering perseverance.
The Iranian Resistance was the first to reveal the secret Weapons of Mass Destruction projects and facilities of the ruling theocracy in June 1991. It stands ready to accompany IAEA inspectors in tracing the source of uranium particles used for bomb-making and in identifying the regime officials involved in these activities.
The mullahs’ regime has long sought to develop a nuclear weapon through secrecy, deceit, and lies, costing the Iranian people over two trillion dollars in this unpatriotic endeavor. Since the Iranian Resistance first exposed the regime’s nuclear ambitions 33 years ago, and particularly after revealing major facilities at Natanz and Arak 22 years ago, the regime has not voluntarily disclosed any of its illegal nuclear activities to the IAEA.
In an interview with the state-run television, Ch. 4, on January 22, 2019, Ali Akbar Salehi, the former head of the regime’s nuclear organization and foreign minister, confessed years ago, “Only the highest official of the regime [Khamenei] knew… His Eminence (Khamenei) warned us, ‘Be careful, they do not keep their promises.’ There was a series of pipes with diameters of two or three centimeters and lengths of three or four meters. We had purchased the same quantity of similar pipes. We were told to fill them with cement, and we did so… But we didn’t disclose that we had additional pipes because, had we done so, they would have demanded, ‘Sir, you must also fill those pipes with cement.’ Now, we are going to use those same pipes; we still possess them.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
November 21, 2024