{"id":347992,"date":"2026-09-11T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=347992"},"modified":"2026-09-11T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:49:24","slug":"irans-nuclear-file-returns-to-the-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/irans-nuclear-file-returns-to-the-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Nuclear File Returns to the Security Council\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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File photo: A vote at the U.N. Security Council in New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Twenty years after the Iranian regime\u2019s nuclear program<\/a> was first reported to the United Nations Security Council, the file is back where Tehran has long sought to keep it from going. On September 9, 2026, the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s 35-member Board of Governors voted 23 to three, with eight abstentions, to report Iran to the Security Council for breaching its nonproliferation obligations. It is the first such referral since 2006.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How It Got There<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

The immediate cause predates the current military confrontation surrounding Iran. On June 12, 2025, the IAEA Board formally found Tehran in noncompliance with its safeguards agreement. The Agency had spent years investigating undeclared nuclear material and activities. It concluded that Iran had repeatedly failed to provide full and technically credible explanations and that the Agency could not verify that nuclear material required to be safeguarded had not been diverted.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The findings were serious. The IAEA assessed that several undeclared locations<\/a> had formed part of an earlier structured nuclear program involving undeclared nuclear material. Iran had also become the only non-nuclear-weapon state producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60 percent\u2014a level far beyond ordinary civilian requirements and close to weapons-grade material in technical terms. Yet even after formally establishing noncompliance, the Board postponed the final referral.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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