Najafi commented on the US-European move to present a new draft resolution to the Board of Governors of the agency, stating, “Washington and three European countries continue to misuse international mechanisms to impose their irrational and authoritarian views on the Iranian people.” He clarified that “pressuring the Director General to issue a report based on expired decisions is an illegal measure that complicates the existing path and delivers a new blow to diplomacy,” according to Iran’s Mehr news agency.
He called on all members of the Board of Governors to reject the “destructive unilateralism” of America and the European “troika” in the Iran nuclear file, affirming his country’s right to take appropriate responses to any such step. The European “troika” intends to present a draft European resolution during the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors from November 19 to 21.
The draft emphasizes that “Iran must comply with the reactivated international resolutions through the ‘Snapback’ mechanism in September 2025, including the suspension of enrichment and reprocessing activities, the implementation of the additional protocol and the amended clause 3.1, alongside full cooperation with the agency and providing the required information about its nuclear stockpiles.”
The project calls for intensifying the Director General’s reports to the Board of Governors and the Security Council, focusing on verifying Iran’s uranium stockpiles and centrifuges. It considers “the continued lack of verification of highly enriched uranium for more than 5 months a serious issue concerning compliance with the safeguards agreement.”
The European decision comes in the context of Washington and the European “troika” activating the ‘Snapback’ mechanism to impose sanctions against Tehran, following the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025, and reviving the six previous UN resolutions against Iran, a move Tehran rejects and describes as creating a “new legal gap.”
