Iran says nuclear installations were ‘badly damaged’
Iran said its nuclear installations were “badly damaged” because it “has come under repeated attacks by Israeli and American aggressors,” Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said on Wednesday.
“There has been a draft bill by our parliament today. It has been adopted. And it talks about suspending our cooperation with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency]. It talks about suspending. Not putting an end to the cooperation,” he said.
“Based on the parliament bill, the IAEA staff are not entitled to enter Iran for inspections, unless security of the nuclear facilities and peaceful activity of Iran is guaranteed,” Baghaei noted.
Iran criticized the IAEA, with Baghaei saying the least it “had to do was to explicitly condemn the acts by the U.S. and Israel.”
“The international community has to understand that what was done by the United States against Iran was a horrible blow to international diplomacy, to international law and to international ethics,” he said.
“After we launched an attack in our defense on the U.S. base in Qatar — that is the al-Hudeid base — we received a message from Oman regarding ceasefire. As a country that has never welcomed war, and never doubted in defending ourselves, we accepted this suggestion,” Baghaei said.