For the first time in decades, it appears the Iranians have really stepped in it, and the United Nations group tasked with monitoring the nuclear agreements has officially had enough.

BREAKING: The U.N.’s 35-nation nuclear watchdog just declared Iran in breach—for the first time in 20 years—raising the prospect of Security Council action.

Iran failed to credibly explain how uranium traces detected at undeclared sites came to be there.https://t.co/4KkzFToY4v

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 12, 2025

Don't ask why it took twenty years.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations on Thursday for the first time in almost 20 years, raising the prospect of reporting it to the U.N. Security Council.

The major step is the culmination of several festering stand-offs between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran that have arisen since President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of a nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers in 2018 during his first term, after which that deal unravelled.

The IAEA's report is said to be 'damning,' so really? Why did it take so long to come to this point?

...The text, seen by Reuters, declares Iran in breach of its obligations given a damning report the IAEA sent to member states on May 31.

"The Board of Governors... finds that Iran's many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran ... constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency," the text said.

A central issue is Iran's failure to provide the IAEA with credible explanations of how uranium traces detected at undeclared sites in Iran came to be there despite the agency having investigated the issue for years.

The May 31 IAEA report, a board-mandated "comprehensive" account of developments, found three of the four locations "were part of an undeclared structured nuclear programme carried out by Iran until the early 2000s and that some activities used undeclared nuclear material".

Two days ago, IAEA head Rafael Grossi (an International Gender Champion, which tells you something about the globalist mindset) discussed the scathing report amid increasing concern that Iran was obtaining enough material to make something 'go boom.' 

IAEA chief Grossi in Vienna now—Iran "the only country in the world that is doing something like this at a level very very close to the level you need to have a nuclear explosive device." pic.twitter.com/DZKthnNYPx

— Daniel Roth (@daniel_c_roth) June 9, 2025

The IAEA found the Iranians had telltale, unexplained uranium traces at sites, refused to allow inspections, and had 'undeclared nuclear material,' and yet the Biden administration kept coddling these psychopaths?

Iran spent the last four years rushing to construct a nuclear arsenal, while keeping the cameras off so the IAEA couldn't see what they were doing. The Biden admin actively assisted: starting in 2022, they issued waivers suspending nuclear sanctions against the regime. https://t.co/zU8ojzv4p9

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 12, 2025

The IAEA resolution was passed by a majority of the advisory board, with the nay votes coming from unsurprising sources. 

...The long-anticipated vote by the agency’s board of governors in Vienna came at a time of high tension over Tehran’s nuclear program, with American and European officials saying they believe that Israel may be preparing an imminent military strike against Iran.

The I.A.E.A. said that Iran had consistently failed to provide information about undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple locations.

The resolution was put forward by the United States, Britain, France and Germany, and passed easily, with 19 votes of the 35-nation board. Russia, China and Burkina Faso voted against, and 11 other countries abstained, while two did not vote at all.

In light of the preemptive actions by the United States yesterday regarding evacuations and alerts, it looks as if the FO hammer is being cocked. The Iranians reacted with textbook bluster and bravado, issuing one of their classic 'Oh, yeah? We'll show you you're not the boss of us' challenges in answer.

A third enrichment site that #Iran announced as a counter-measure to #IAEA resolution has already been built and is ready to operate when equipped with machinery, the head of Iran's atomic energy organization Mohammad Eslami tells state media. https://t.co/p2dWM2fyxH

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 12, 2025

This seems FA foolish on its face, but making big noises may be all the regime has left.

Iran to significantly increase uranium enrichment in wake of IAEA resolution - i24NEWS https://t.co/rfRWEHchzi

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 12, 2025

And I would bet the Israelis already have those coordinates if such a site, in fact, exists.

...The statement added that Iran would now “launch a new enrichment center in a secure location and replace the first-generation machines” at another site with more modern equipment.

What is called 'The Quad Statement' and was delivered by the US on behalf of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, lays out the case against Iran for the passing of the resolution against them. While it is full of 'we surely hope Iran will use these last few moments wisely/get their act together' and 'this is not an escalation but an acknowledgment of continued Iranian misdeeds' diplomatic speak, it reads very much like a laundry list justifying corrective action. 

...Now, at this Board’s request, Director General Grossi has produced a comprehensive and updated assessment of the possible presence or use of undeclared nuclear material in connection with past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program, addressing the Agency’s ability to verify Iran’s implementation of its safeguards obligations.

The Director General’s report speaks for itself in describing the full extent of the outstanding safeguards issues in Iran, their connection with Iran’s past nuclear activities, and Iran’s extensive record of obstruction, concealment, deception, and obfuscation in its approach to the work of the IAEA and the implementation of its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.

The report makes clear that:

• Iran has refused to declare nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at three undeclared locations in Iran.
• Until the early 2000s, those locations and possibly others formed part of Iran’s undeclared structured nuclear program.
• Iran retained, at Turquzabad, up until 2018, unknown nuclear material and/or heavily contaminated equipment and other assets arising from various locations, the whereabouts of which remain unknown to the Agency.
• These locations, as well as several others, were sanitized through various means, including the wholesale demolition of buildings, at key times in the IAEA’s investigation and despite direct requests by the Agency to preserve them.

In addition, the Director General’s report underscores that:

• Iran is the only country that is not meeting its obligations related to the implementation of the modified Code 3.1, which it accepted in 2003, even as Iran talks openly about constructing new nuclear facilities. As the Agency has recalled multiple times, the modified Code 3.1 is a legal obligation for Iran under the Subsidiary Arrangements to its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.  Iran cannot unilaterally modify or suspend implementation of these Subsidiary Arrangements.
• Iran is the only State in the world without nuclear weapons that is producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60%, which has potential proliferation implications.
• There have been repeated statements by former high-level officials in Iran related to Iran having the capability to manufacture nuclear weapons, which continue to provide concerns.

The report’s overall assessment is alarming:  as a result of Iran’s failure to cooperate with the IAEA, the Director General cannot rule out that nuclear material remains unaccounted for and outside of safeguards in Iran today and he cannot provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.  These serious findings should give all of us pause.

Iran has also mounted a campaign claiming the IAEA is collaborating with Israel against them, and social media sites like RT are posting supposed super secret communications between the two proving collusion, while Iranian media types rexweet the in-breach news, asking why Israel has never been inspected or investigated.

It's not terribly subtle or clever.

In positive regional news, the Israelis have been overflying parts of Syria for weeks now, and ran a targeted raid into the country last night, capturing a good number of Hamas terrorists along with weapons caches.

There are signs that the new leader there, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is looking for a rapprochement with the Israelis, who have signalled they are willing to talk.

There are, of course, conditions.

Israel laid out its red lines in Syria to U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye and Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack:

1. No Turkish bases in Syria

2. Demilitarization of southern Syria,

3. No return of Iran or Hezbollah forces. pic.twitter.com/3GWQPiymLJ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 11, 2025

The Syrians went wild with joy upon hearing of Nasrallah's death in Beirut, so I don't see where the Hezbollah or Iranian requirement will be a problem.

Tactically, it's quite a trek for the Israelis to hit anything in Iran. The distances are enormous, but, as they have done it successfully before, take them at their word when they say they'll handle something.

As for the Iranians continuing to carry on as they wish, Trump was quite clear about that last night.

Trump with a clear message when asked if anything can be done to dial the temperature down with Iran:

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. We are not going to allow that” pic.twitter.com/Q24RXq4ci4

— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 11, 2025

'We are not going to allow that.'

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