Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has issued a strong response to recent remarks by Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), regarding Iran’s nuclear activities.

Grossi stated, “We did not have any evidence of a systematic effort [by Iran] to move into a nuclear weapon.” However, the Iranian MFA Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei criticized this statement as coming too late, accusing Grossi of previously obscuring this truth in an allegedly biased report.

Baghaei says that Grossi has betrayed the non-proliferation regime and made the agency a partner to the unjust war of aggression against Iran.

Baghaei made the comments in an X post on Thursday;

DG @rafaelmgrossi:“We did not have any evidence of a systematic effort [by Iran] to move into a nuclear weapon.”
This is too late, Mr. Grossi: you obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was instrumentalize by E3/U.S. to craft a resolution with baseless… pic.twitter.com/A2cQcyqiFy

— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) June 19, 2025

Source: Iranian media and Agencies