Iran and five partner states tabled a draft resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) urging a ban on all attacks or threats against safeguarded nuclear facilities.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei announced on Tuesday that Iran, along with China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Belarus, has submitted a draft resolution titled “Prohibition of all forms of attack and threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under IAEA safeguards.”

“To defend the integrity of the NPT, Iran along with China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus have submitted a draft resolution on “Prohibition of all forms of attack and threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under #IAEA safeguards”,” Baghaei wrote on X on Tuesday.

To defend the integrity of the NPT, Iran along with China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus have submitted a draft resolution on “Prohibition of all forms of attack and threats of attack against nuclear sites and facilities under #IAEA safeguards”.

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— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) September 16, 2025

“As our draft reconfirms, all countries enjoy ‘inalienable right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes’ and are ‘entitled to effective guarantees against any attack or threat of attack’,” he added.

“It also reaffirms that all States must refrain from attacking or threatening to attack peaceful nuclear facilities in other countries,” the senior Iranian diplomat continued.

He concluded by saying that these principles must be upheld, noting that “it is high time that the international community acted firmly to prevent the normalization of lawlessness.”

Iran’s top nuclear officials are now in Vienna to participate in the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which starts later on Monday and ends on Friday.

After arriving in the Austrian capital, Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told Iranian state media that the conference is a good opportunity to direct attention to IAEA moves, particularly its director, Rafael Grossi, that have raised questions about the agency’s credibility.

“We witnessed the agency’s lack of professional conduct, as this body, without taking any position, did not condemn [attacks on Iran] and instead acted in a very neutral manner – it applied a double standard to perfection,” Eslami said.

He pointed out that the agency has repeatedly and explicitly condemned attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, while failed to condemn the US strikes on Iran nuclear facilities during the 12-day Israeli aggression on the Islamic Republic in June.

“Even if this resolution is not adopted, it shows that the Charter of the United Nations has, in the truest sense of the word, been damaged.”

Source: Iranian media and Al Jazeera (edited by Al-Manar)