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STORY: IAEA / IRAN SITUATION UPDATE
TRT: 04:26
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JUNE 2025, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, Board of Governors meeting, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at the dais
2. Various shots, Iran and Israel name plates
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Our Incident and Emergency Centre has been up and running 24/7 from the start, ascertaining the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities and the level of radiation at relevant sites through constant communication with Iranian authorities. The IAEA is ready to respond to any nuclear or radiological emergency within an hour.”
4. Wide shot, Grossi at the dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“There has been no additional damage at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant site since the Friday attack, which destroyed the above-ground part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, one of the plants at which Iran was producing uranium enriched up to 60 percent U-235. Electricity infrastructure at the facility, which included an electrical sub-station, a main electric power supply building, and emergency power supply and back-up generators, was also destroyed. There has been no indication of a physical attack on the underground cascade hall containing part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and the main Fuel Enrichment Plant. However, the loss of power to the cascade hall may have damaged the centrifuges there. The level of radioactivity outside the Natanz site has remained unchanged and at normal levels, indicating no external radiological impact to the population or the environment from this event.”
6. Wide shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Military escalation threatens lives, increases the chance of a radiological release with serious consequences for people and the environment and delays indispensable work towards a diplomatic solution for the long-term assurance that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. Consistent with the objectives of the IAEA and its Statute, I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation.”
8. Wide shot, Grossi at the dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Member States of the IAEA have a crucial, active role to play in supporting the urgent move away from military escalation towards diplomacy. I urge you to pursue every possible diplomatic avenue and I assure you that I remain ready to play my part, including, as I said, by travelling at the earliest possibility to assess the situation and ensure safety, security and non-proliferation in Iran.”
10. Wide shot, Grossi at the dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“For the second time in three years, we are witnessing a dramatic conflict between two IAEA Member States in which nuclear installations are coming under fire and nuclear safety is being compromised. The IAEA, just as has been the case with the military conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, will not stand idly by during this conflict. We can and will act within our statutory mandate to assist in preventing a nuclear accident that could result in unpredictable radiological consequences. For the IAEA to act, a constructive, professional dialogue will have to ensue, and this must happen sooner rather than later.”
12. Wide shot, Board of Governors meeting
Following Friday’s attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi today (16 Jun) called on all parties “to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation.”
Grossi told the IAEA’s Board of Governors that “military escalation threatens lives, increases the chance of a radiological release with serious consequences for people and the environment and delays indispensable work towards a diplomatic solution for the long-term assurance that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.”
He said the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre “has been up and running 24/7 from the start, ascertaining the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities and the level of radiation at relevant sites through constant communication with Iranian authorities,” and pointed out that “the IAEA is ready to respond to any nuclear or radiological emergency within an hour.”
The Director-General reported that “there has been no additional damage at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant site since the Friday attack, which destroyed the above-ground part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant,” adding that “there has been no indication of a physical attack on the underground cascade hall containing part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and the main Fuel Enrichment Plant.”
He stressed that “Member States of the IAEA have a crucial, active role to play in supporting the urgent move away from military escalation towards diplomacy” and urged them “to pursue every possible diplomatic avenue.”
Grossi told the Board of Governors that “for the second time in three years, we are witnessing a dramatic conflict between two IAEA Member States in which nuclear installations are coming under fire and nuclear safety is being compromised.”
He said, “the IAEA, just as has been the case with the military conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, will not stand idly by during this conflict. We can and will act within our statutory mandate to assist in preventing a nuclear accident that could result in unpredictable radiological consequences.”
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