{"id":310704,"date":"2025-06-19T05:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310704"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:20:10","slug":"iaea-chief-confirms-agency-has-no-proof-iran-building-nuclear-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310704","title":{"rendered":"IAEA chief confirms agency has \u2018no proof\u2019 Iran building nuclear bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Netanyahu tries to convince U.N delegates of the nuclear threat posed by Iran in Sept 2012.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Cradle \u2013 June 18, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/514580\/Grossi-admits-no-evidence-Iran-seeking-nuclear-arms-CNN-senior\">said<\/a>\u00a0on 17 June that there is \u201cno proof\u201d that Iran has been working toward the development of a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWe did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iaeaorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iaeaorg<\/a> Director General affirms his agency\u2019s findings about Iran\u2019s nuclear program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TmHx7rtfjJ\">pic.twitter.com\/TmHx7rtfjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amanpour\/status\/1935095391109922822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat we informed and what we reported was that we did not have \u2013 as in coincidence with some of the sources you mentioned there, that we did not have any proof a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,\u201d Grossi said in an interview with CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour.<\/p>\n<p>The IAEA chief also said he is not aware of whether or not any secret activities were carried out by Iran without the knowledge of the UN watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Grossi said he<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1973971\"> could not confirm <\/a>Israeli reports about the weaponization of the Iranian nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I would not judge Israel\u2019s intelligence readings,\u201d the IAEA chief said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is their evaluation \u2026 I\u2019m not familiar with the internal reports or information that they may have. Whereas until the early 2000s there used to be \u2026 the general consensus not only from the IAEA, but in general, internationally, there had been a more or less structured and systematic effort in the direction of a nuclear device \u2013 this is not the case now, or at least we cannot say that we, as the IAEA, have enough credible elements, which will be pointing directly into this eventuality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Grossi\u2019s latest remarks on CNN came a week after the IAEA board passed a resolution accusing Iran of non-compliance with nuclear obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Israel and its own illicit nuclear program are not subject to.<\/p>\n<p>They also coincided with widespread anticipation of the US entering the war against Iran alongside Israel, particularly for an attack on the Fordow nuclear facility, which is heavily fortified and lies beneath a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Reports in Hebrew media have said the assessment in Israel is that US President Donald Trump is likely to join the war, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing for.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and the US have repeatedly accused Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb over the past several years. Tel Aviv claims its war against the country aims to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n<p>However, US intelligence estimates have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-2051523\">confirmed again that Iran is years away from being able to acquire such a weapon<\/a>, and is not even actively pursuing the development of a nuke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran cannot have a nuclear weapon,\u201d Trump said on 17 June, before demanding \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d from Tehran and threatening the country\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new poll released by <em>The Economist<\/em> and YouGov Poll, 60 percent of US citizens <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/politics\/articles\/52380-donald-trump-approval-israel-iran-ice-immigration-protests-vaccines-robert-f-kennedy-jr-june-13-16-2025-economistyougov-poll\">oppose<\/a> Washington\u2019s intervention in Israel\u2019s war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s escalatory statements have prompted many to draw parallels between the current situation and Washington\u2019s false assessments prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, when Colin Powell appeared before the UN and said Saddam Hussein\u2019s government was producing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).<\/p>\n<p>It has become common knowledge among US and western circles that these assessments, which were used as justification to invade Iraq, were completely untrue.<\/p>\n<p>An annual US intelligence assessment published in March this year<a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles\/us-intel-report-determines-iran-not-building-nuclear-weapon\"> revealed <\/a>that \u201cIran is not building a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Months earlier, former CIA chief William Burns<a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles\/outgoing-cia-director-says-no-sign-iran-developing-nuclear-weapons\"> said<\/a>, \u201cWe do not see any sign today that any such decision has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles-id\/31427\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we witnessing a replay of Weapons of Mass Destruction farce? In 2003 claims about \u2018Saddam\u2019s WMD\u2019 were used to justify the invasion of Iraq, although none were ever found. Now we are told that Iran is close to building a nuclear bomb, even though the IAEA says there is \u2018no proof\u2019 that Iran is developing nuclear weapons <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":57375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310736,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310704\/revisions\/310736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}