The head of the UN nuclear agency said on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) there has been no indication Iran has tried to repair or reconstruct its nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli military strikes this year or last year.
Grossi said that “since June 2025, we have not identified any activity to repair or reconstruct any of the facilities damaged in the military attacks of 2025 and 2026. However, Mr. Under those obligations, which are part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is legally bound to declare all nuclear material and activities and allow IAEA inspectors to verify that none of it is being diverted from peaceful uses. The IAEA asked Iran for answers, Mr.
President Donald Trump has said one of the major reasons the U.S. went to war with Iran on Feb. 28 was to deny Tehran the ability to develop nuclear weapons, even as he has insisted that strikes the U.S. carried out on Iranian nuclear sites in June 2025 “obliterated” the country’s atomic program. Iran’s UN deputy ambassador Gholamhossein Darzi attacked the council for its silence after the U.S.-Israeli attacks, denouncing their “wars of aggression against Iran” and accusing the U.S. of committing war crimes against the Iranian people. US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz called Iran a “brutal dictatorship” and asked if the Iranian ambassador wanted to apologize to Bahrain’s envoy, a council member, for attacking his country. “We’ve heard tireless allegations against the United States, ” he said. Waltz said, and it would be smart for the Iranian representative to start providing some answers. “Your lies are no good here,” he said.
“What we have not heard today is an explanation for Iran’s continued failure to satisfy its safeguard obligations.
