The Board of Governors,

(a) Commending the continued professional, independent and impartial efforts of the IAEA Director General and the Secretariat, including its inspectors, to implement Iran’s NPT Safeguards Agreement and to resolve the long outstanding Safeguards issues in Iran,

(b) Emphasizing the essential and independent role of the IAEA in verifying Iran’s compliance with its NPT Safeguards obligations,

(c) Stressing the imperative nature of Iran’s compliance with its Safeguards obligations and the importance of Iran cooperating fully and in a timely manner with the Agency with a view to clarifying and resolving the long outstanding Safeguards issues detailed in the Director General’s report GOV/2025/25 and in several prior reports,

(d) Recalling the Board of Governors’ resolutions of 19 June 2020 contained in GOV/2020/34, of 8 June 2022 contained in GOV/2022/34, of 17 November 2022 contained in GOV/2022/70, of 5 June 2024 contained in GOV/2024/39, and of 21 November 2024 contained in GOV/2024/68, which called upon Iran to fully cooperate with the Agency and decided that it is essential and urgent, in order to ensure verification of the non-diversion of nuclear material, that Iran act to fulfil its legal obligations and, with a view to clarifying all outstanding issues, take all specified actions without delay,

(e) Regretting that despite the above resolutions by the Board and numerous opportunities provided by the Director General since 2019, Iran has failed to provide the co-operation required under its Safeguards Agreement, impeding Agency verification activities, sanitizing locations, and repeatedly failing to provide the Agency with technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at several undeclared locations in Iran or information on the current location(s) of nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment, instead stating, inconsistent with the Agency’s findings, that it has declared all nuclear material and activities required under its Safeguards Agreement,

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