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Iran-Israel crisis: IAEA chief calls for access to damaged nuclear sites

·June 23, 2025·3 min read

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was addressing the agency’s Board of Governors, amid fresh reports of new Israeli missile strikes on Iranian military sites in Tehran and elsewhere earlier on Monday. Iranian weapons fire has also been reported across Israel. Mr. Grossi – who also...

UN chief ‘gravely alarmed’ by US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites

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·June 22, 2025·1 min read

“I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today,” said the UN chief, reiterating that there is no military solution. “This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security.” President...

Monitoring Iran and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy– the IAEA’s role explained

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·June 20, 2025·5 min read

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) dates back to 1957 and was set up in response to global fears following the first use of nuclear and atomic weapons and alarm over the advent and spread of nuclear technology. An autonomous part of the United Nations system, it works on issues...

Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

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·March 2, 2025·1 min read

New data released on Friday from the UN-backed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reveals that while the overall number remains consistent with previous years, the continued incidents of trafficking and radioactive contamination cases raises concerns over nuclear security. Three of the reported cases were directly linked to trafficking or malicious...

Nuclear weapons are ‘one-way road to annihilation’ warns Guterres

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·February 25, 2025·1 min read

“The nuclear option is not an option at all,” he said, addressing the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. “It is a one-way road to annihilation. We need to avoid this dead-end at all costs.” Arms race spreading to space Mr. Guterres warned delegates of heightened global security concerns, noting...

Amid ‘clear’ threat of nuclear war, Guterres tells Security Council multilateral off-ramp is essential

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·February 18, 2025·8 min read

The ministerial-level meeting was convened by China, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, as the UN prepares to mark its 80th anniversary later this year. UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the debate emphasizing that “global solidarity and solutions are needed more than ever” as the climate crisis rages...

DPR Korea’s nuclear quest thwarts disarmament efforts, Security Council hears

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·January 9, 2025·2 min read

Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for peacebuilding and political affairs, briefed ambassadors two days after the DPRK, commonly known as North Korea, fired off what it described as a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile (IRBM) loaded with a hypersonic glide vehicle. He cited an official statement from Pyongyang which...

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system risks nuclear disaster: rights experts

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·November 26, 2024·2 min read

Their warning comes amid growing international concern about the vulnerability of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities which rely on a stable power grid to maintain critical safety systems. “The latest large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s electricity system has led to further significant damage to electric substations that are essential to the...

Ukraine’s nuclear security situation ‘highly challenging’, warns UN atomic watchdog

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·November 7, 2024·2 min read

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – which is also Europe’s biggest nuclear energy facility – has been under Russian control since shortly after it launched a full-scale military campaign in February 2022. In recent days, an IAEA expert team crossed the frontline to replace colleagues at the Zaporizhzhya plant who...

UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands

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·October 5, 2024·2 min read

Research conducted by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, revealed that 67 nuclear tests performed between 1946 and 1958 by the United States Government in the Marshall Islands left communities displaced and contributed to radioactive land and sea pollution. “The nuclear legacy casts a long shadow across generations and the...

Governments urged to ‘stop gambling with humanity’s future’ and eliminate nuclear weapons

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·September 27, 2024·5 min read

The High-Level Meeting was held to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, observed annually on 26 September. “There should be no place for these devices of death in our world,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Nuclear ‘spectre’ looming He warned, however, that “not since the...

Effort to restart Iran nuclear deal ‘at a standstill’ Security Council hears

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·December 26, 2023·3 min read

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed in 2015 lays out the rules for monitoring Iran’s domestic nuclear programme and paved the way for US sanctions to be lifted. It was agreed by Iran, the five permanent members of the Council (China, France, Russia the United Kingdom and the...