Tehran has long accused the UN nuclear watchdog of espionage through US-funded tools like Palantir’s MOSAIC, disguised as nuclear monitoring
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According to Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, ambassadors and permanent representatives of the three countries sent a joint letter to IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, confirming that the agency’s verification and monitoring duties under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) had officially expired.
In a post shared on X, Gharibabadi said the letter followed an earlier joint message addressed to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council president announcing the termination of Resolution 2231 earlier this month.
The letter also described the European attempt to invoke the so-called “snapback” sanctions mechanism as “illegal,” asserting that the UK, France, and Germany had already violated the nuclear deal.
The IAEA’s monitoring activities were established by a Board of Governors resolution adopted on 15 December 2015.
That resolution specified that the Board would “remain seized of the matter until ten years after the JCPOA Adoption Day or until the date on which the Director General reports that the Agency has reached the broader conclusion for Iran, whichever is earlier.”
Gharibabadi said this means that “as of 18 October 2025, the related agenda item has been automatically removed from the agenda of the Board of Governors, and no further action is required in this regard.”
The three nations also called for Iran's nuclear file to be closed entirely within the IAEA, urging a political resolution through dialogue and rejecting the use of unilateral sanctions or threats of force.
Earlier this month, Tehran declared all UN restrictions on its nuclear program had expired with the lapse of Resolution 2231.
The joint declaration by Iran, Russia, and China effectively dismantles what Tehran has long viewed as a cover for espionage inside the Islamic Republic.
Revelations surrounding the IAEA’s MOSAIC program—a data platform built with US funding and Palantir’s predictive surveillance software—have reinforced those suspicions.
For years, MOSAIC enabled inspectors to aggregate imagery, documents, and sensor data from Iran’s nuclear facilities into AI-driven analyses that, according to British investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg, blurred the boundary between monitoring and intelligence gathering.
Iranian officials argue that the system’s reliance on western-supplied inputs and opaque algorithms allowed fabricated or manipulated data to justify intrusive inspections and potentially aid Israel’s targeting of Iranian scientists.
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