NPT Safeguards Agreement with Iran: Resolution to the IAEA Board of Governors, November 2025

Chair,

On behalf of France, Germany and the United Kingdom and the United States, I thank Director General Grossi for his newest reviews on Iran’s implementation of its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, and for the excellent reporting on Iran’s nuclear programme. We commend the professionalism and independence of the Agency and its inspectors and recognize their continued efforts below troublesome circumstances.

The Board is conscious that the UN Security Council just lately reimposed six UN Security Council Resolutions on Iran, re-introducing legally binding restrictions on its nuclear programme, together with suspension of all enrichment, reprocessing and heavy water associated actions. Under the Charter of the United Nations, Member States are below an obligation to implement these choices for the upkeep of worldwide peace and safety instantly and thru their actions in related worldwide our bodies.

Today, the UK, France, Germany and the US are tabling a decision to make clear the IAEA’s reporting mandate, making certain it supplies common reporting on Iran’s compliance with the nuclear components of the reinstated Security Council Resolutions.

This decision doesn’t create new obligations for Iran; it restores certainty and supplies a transparent mandate for Agency reporting, returning to the identical reporting it did earlier than the JCPoA, below a single agenda merchandise. This readability is important for the Agency to have the ability to fulfil its mandate.

The decision additionally remembers Iran’s ongoing non-compliance with its authorized obligations below its NPT Safeguards Agreement, which stays in power, and can’t be suspended below any circumstances. Iran has not granted entry to all its safeguarded amenities. The Director General has confused that it’s indispensable and pressing for Iran to implement safeguard actions in accordance with this Agreement and he has highlighted severe gaps: the continuity of information in relation to Iran’s stock of nuclear materials, together with Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) has been misplaced for over 5 months. Verification of those inventories is lengthy overdue and demanding to handle issues about potential diversion from peaceable use. Iran should honour these obligations by urgently offering the particular report on its nuclear materials and grant the Agency full entry to its nuclear materials and amenities. Iran should additionally implement the provisions of modified Code 3.1 with out additional delay.

The decision thus requests not more than what Iran is already legally obliged to supply: unhindered entry, exact data on nuclear materials accountancy and safeguarded nuclear amenities, and restoration of mandatory monitoring preparations. It reaffirms Iran’s proper below Article IV of the NPT to peaceable nuclear power – a proper that’s conditional on Iran’s full compliance with its NPT obligations.

Our message is obvious: Iran should resolve its safeguards points at once. It should present sensible cooperation by entry, solutions, restoration of monitoring, to allow the Agency to do its job and assist rebuild confidence.

Chair,

Our delegations have engaged broadly with Board members to clarify our considering, solicit their suggestions, and take heed to their views on these issues. We thank those who have already indicated assist for this decision, and request the textual content be made public, ought to or not it’s adopted.

We invite all Board members to hitch us at the moment in voting in favour of this decision.

Thank you.