IAEA

The IAEA Board sent its Iran findings to the UN Security Council on 9 September, with 23 governors voting for referral, three against and eight abstaining. The step put the agency’s inspection findings into the Council’s political arena after Iran had denied it physical access to nuclear material.

The referral does not restore the IAEA’s ability to verify what Iran holds or where it is stored. Around 1 September, inspectors still lacked access to verify Iran's nuclear stockpile; the IAEA sought an urgent visit to Isfahan. For the IAEA, the case now combines a formal safeguards dispute with a broken monitoring record.

On 20 August, Zaporizhzhia lost its last off-site power line for the 26th time since 2022. The outage left cooling dependent on diesel generators, and a later repair restored only one external connection. The IAEA’s role is to observe and report safety conditions at a site where repeated power losses narrow the margin for safe cooling.

On 1 July, an IAEA team confirmed that a drone strike had damaged the fire station supporting Zaporizhzhia’s emergency response. That work places the agency at the junction of inspection, safety reporting and local risk reduction, even where it cannot control the conflict causing the damage.