Chair,

The United States extends its deep gratitude to the Director General and the Secretariat for their continued efforts to verify Iran’s implementation of its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement required by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to carry out essential monitoring and verification activities in Iran.

With previous UN Security Council Resolutions on Iran back in effect, it is imperative that the Board take action to provide the Director General a clear and comprehensive mandate with respect to IAEA verification and reporting in Iran moving forward. The reimposition of the UN Security Council resolutions (Snapback) is not a return to business as usual; rather, it marks the restoration of the suspension of all enrichment, reprocessing, and heavy-water related activities in Iran, prohibitions that the IAEA is requested to verify and on which it must report.

Given Iran’s ongoing non-compliance with its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, refusal to provide access to all nuclear facilities in Iran, and failure for more than five months to provide the IAEA with required reports on the status of its uranium stockpiles, the need for detailed technical reporting from the Director General is more important than ever.

In that regard, the United States would like to affirm our strong support for this resolution, GOV/2025/69. This resolution is technical, apolitical, and establishes a clear implementation and reporting mandate for the Agency that accounts for the reimposition of UN sanctions and other restrictions on Iran under six previous UN Security Council resolutions.

We have full faith in the Director General to carry out this essential work. Moreover, we call upon Iran to fully and immediately fulfil its legal obligations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and relevant UNSCRs so that the Director General can be in a position to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material in Iran and assure that Iran’s nuclear activities are exclusively peaceful.

With these comments, the United States takes note of the Director General’s report in document GOV/2025/65 and requests it be made public.

Thank you, Chair.