The IAEA reproaches Israel for its attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities

MADRID 20 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), the nuclear agency linked to the United Nations, Rafael Grossi, has reproached Israel for its recent attack against nuclear facilities in Iran, as announced by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the beginning of the week.

“There is a body of law that indicates that nuclear facilities should not be attacked. I hope that this is the case and that reason prevails,” Grossi said during a press conference on the sidelines of an IAEA meeting in Vienna. He has also indicated that he plans to address this matter with Netanyahu himself.

This rebuke from Grossi comes after Netanyahu himself assured the Israeli Parliament earlier this week that, in the latest wave of Israeli attacks on Iran, a component of the Iranian nuclear program was bombed. “It’s no secret,” said the Israeli president in parliament.

On the other hand, the American news portal Axios had previously reported the destruction of a facility in northern Iran that was part of the Ayatollah regime’s secret nuclear weapons program before 2003 and that had recently been reactivated.

According to Grossi, it is possible that nuclear activities have been carried out at these facilities in the past, but he has stressed that it is unlikely that Iran has resumed operations there. “We do not have any information that confirms the presence of nuclear material,” the highest representative of the IAEA has clarified.

Israeli aviation killed four soldiers and a civilian at the end of October in bombings in response to the Iranian shell attack on October 1, in which nearly 180 ballistic missiles were fired at military facilities of the Israel Defense Forces ( FDI) and without leaving victims.

These attacks were described by Tehran as a response to the deaths of several leaders of armed groups allied with Iran in the region. The Israeli Army confirmed that several of its air bases were hit, although it denied significant damage and refused to give details on the percentage of interceptions.