Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Government, Marco Rubio, condemned Iran’s threats against the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), Argentine Rafael Grossi. “Calls in Iran for the detention and execution of the general director of the OIEAGrossi, they are unacceptable and must be convicted, “the head of the United States diplomacy pronounced.
“We support the critical efforts of verification and control of the OIEA in Iran and congratulate the Director General and the IEA for his dedication and professionalism. We ask Iran to guarantee the safety of OIEA personnel“, follow the message of Trump’s official.
Rubio’s statements occurred after Iran’s Council of Guardians approved a Plan for the Islamic Republic to suspend cooperation with the OIEA. Only the signing of the country’s president, Masud fishshkian, remains to make this measure effective.
The plan approved by Parliament implies prohibiting the entry of the OIEA in Iran and expelling all its inspectors. In addition, the Iranian nuclear state agency will be prohibited from sharing information or reports on the Iranian nuclear program with the international body.
Asked on this issue, Grossi pointed out that he was “very much” the suspension of cooperation with the OIEA. “The presence of the organism in Iran is not a kind of gesture gesture, it is an international responsibility. Iran is a member of the non -proliferation treaty and, therefore, it must have an inspection system. And you cannot suspend unilaterally (this obligation), so I hope it is not the case, because if it were, We would be on the edge of a new crisis“He said to RFI.
Calls in Iran for the arrest and execution of IAEA Director General Grossi are unacceptable and should be condemned.
We support the lAEA’s critical verification and monitoring efforts in Iran and commend the Director General and the lAEA for their dedication and professionalism.…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) June 28, 2025
In that interview, Grossi also recognized that “There is some tension (with Iran) at this time. There are political voices in Iran who believe that the agency has not been impartial. “The Iranian government believes that the agency did not condemn Israeli attacks against the country’s nuclear facilities.
Iran’s aggressions and threats against the Argentine who presides over the UN Atomic Energy Agency
The friction between the Argentine and the Iranian government reached their maximum point a week ago, when Ali Larijani -mainssor of the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khameneii, threatened Grossi: without giving more details, he said that Iran would make “pay” once the war with Israel ends.
In parallel, the Persian country filed a complaint against Grossi before the United Nations Security Council for “its biased approach to Iran’s nuclear program.”
Iran’s representative before the United Nations, Saeed Iravani, accused the Argentine at that time to violate “clearly and seriously the principle of impartiality” for his statements against Iran’s nuclear program.
On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in X that Grossi “directly facilitated the adoption of a politically motivated resolution against Iran by the Board of Governors of the OIEA, as well as the Israeli and American illegal bombings against Iranian nuclear facilities” and criticized him for not condemning the attacks of Israel and the United States homework”.
“Rafael Grossi’s insistence on visiting the bombarded sites under the pretext of the safeguards is meaningless and possibly even has malignant intentions. Iran reserves the right to take any measure in defense of their interests, their people and their sovereignty,” Araghchi closed.
For his part, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (OEAI), Mohammad Eslami, said this week that “Grossi’s destructive role in relation to Iran will be registered in history” and that his procrastination had raided the path that for Israel to move forward in its illegal goals, the IRNA agency cited.