Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, oversees energy agency policy amid U.N. watchdog tensions and US-Israel-Iran brinkmanship.
The IAEA board has voted 23–3, with eight abstentions, to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over Tehran's failure to explain uranium traces and its refusal to allow inspectors access to sites hit in 2025. Vienna has denied entry to Iran's nuclear vice‑president, blocking his planned address to the agency this week.
The IAEA conference in Vienna sees the exclusion of Iran’s head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, amid deteriorating Iran-West relations after a July ceasefire collapse. Austria sought a travel-ban waiver, but it was not granted. Iran maintains its program is peaceful and has limited access to impacted sites after attacks in June 2025. The issue highlights ongoing disputes over Iranian nuclear safeguards.