The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed “growing concern” about Iran’s underground uranium enrichment facility at Isfahan. Tehran has still not allowed the agency to inspect it, so the IAEA cannot confirm where the facility is, what state it is in or whether there is nuclear material there.
The concerns are set out in a confidential quarterly report the agency sent to member states, the Reuters news agency reported.
The report says the IAEA has no information on the exact location of the Isfahan Fuel Enrichment Plant (IFEP), its current status under safeguards monitoring, or whether there is nuclear material there.
The agency described as a serious concern the lack of access to Iran’s stock of enriched uranium and to various nuclear facilities since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025.
The IAEA said the situation needs to be resolved urgently. Without information and inspections, the agency also cannot conclude that no nuclear material has been diverted from peaceful nuclear activities.
The report also says, according to the AFP news agency, that the IAEA director general has urged Iran to consider technical, step-by-step measures that could create the conditions for the agency’s inspectors to return to Iran.
Such phased steps could open the way to restoring normal safeguards monitoring in Iran, the report says.
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