The withdrawal of international inspectors comes amid heightened concerns that Iran, battered by Israeli and U.S. strikes, may be driven to try to build a nuclear bomb.
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on Friday that its inspectors have left Iran, days after the country — still reeling from its war with Israel — suspended cooperation with the international agency.
Iran’s president enacted a law on Wednesday that halts cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, effectively blocking international oversight into Iran’s contentious nuclear program.
This comes at a particularly critical moment, when experts are warning that the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities may simply drive the country to take its program underground, making it even more difficult to determine whether it was working toward building a weapon.
“An I.A.E.A. team of inspectors today safely departed from Iran to return to the Agency headquarters in Vienna, after staying in Tehran throughout the recent military conflict,” the U.N. agency said in a statement on the platform X.
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