The Security Council convened to discuss the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and major world Powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, briefed members on the Secretary-General’s most recent report on resolution 2231 (2015), dated 19 June 2026.
The report indicated that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had not conducted any in-field verification activities in Iran under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Safeguards Agreement – the instrument that had once enabled the Agency to verify and monitor Iran’s compliance under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“The Agency also reported a significant deterioration in its situational awareness following the attacks against Iran by the United States and Israel that began on 28 February 2026,” she said.
“It has now lost continuity of knowledge across all of Iran’s declared nuclear facilities […] extending to the production and current inventory of centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water and uranium ore concentrate.”
At the meeting’s outset, the representative of the Russian Federation, echoed by China’s delegate, objected to the holding of today’s meeting, stressing that resolution 2231 (2015) is no longer in force.
“Since 17 October 2025, the Security Council has had no mandate to discuss these matters,” she said. Still, some Council members continue to flout the rules – requesting meetings on agenda items “that simply do not exist” – for narrow political reasons.
She then requested a procedural vote on the holding of today’s meeting.
Source: Al-Manar English Website