US ‘falsely portrayed’ Iran’s enriched uranium as danger to invade country: Envoy

The Iranian ambassador and permanent representatives to the UN Office and other international organizations in Vienna says the United States “falsely portrayed” the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear activities as a danger in a bid to wage two illegal acts of aggression against the country.

Reza Najafi made the remarks in a statement delivered at the 11th Session of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

He said that only in less than nine months in 2025 and 2026, two nuclear-weapon possessors launched unlawful military assaults against Iran, which has put its civilian nuclear program under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

“While all of Iran’s enriched uranium has always been under the IAEA’s fullest supervision and accounted for, even up to its last gram, and till now there is no report whatsoever about the diversion of even one gram of such material, the Americans falsely portrayed Iran’s enriched uranium as a danger,” he added.

“Again, the aim was to distract attentions away from the 55 years of clear noncompliance of the US with its nuclear disarmament obligations, as well as to demonize Iran and to invade it.”

Najafi noted that Israeli officials repeated the “Big Lie” that Iran is only a few weeks away from developing nuclear arms in an attempt to divert attention from the regime’s atrocities, as well as its clandestine nuclear weapons program.

The envoy also said that US-Israeli attacks targeted Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including schools, universities, hospitals, bridges, homes, mosques, churches, synagogues, and historical places, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who had issued a Fatwa (religious decree) on prohibition of nuclear weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), along with more than 3,400 civilians.

US-Israeli strikes on 130,000 civilian sites amount to war crime, Iran tells ICRC

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi decries US-Israeli airstrikes against 130,000 civilian facilities throughout Iran as a war crime and crime against humanity.

Only in one case, 168 innocent children, aged between 7 and 12, were mercilessly torn to pieces in a triple-tap strike on a girl’s primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, he went on to say.

Najafi further censured the UN Security Council and the IAEA’s Board of Governors and its director general for failing to even issue a simple verbal condemnation of the Minab tragedy while adopting anti-Iran resolutions.

“These inaction and indifference indicates that the world is rapidly moving down the slope of moral and legal decline. Does appeasement and silence towards the aggressors mean anything other than aiding and abetting them? Wouldn’t it result in emboldening them to commit more crimes more brutally against more nations?” he asked.

Additionally, the Iranian envoy highlighted threats posed by Israel to regional peace, as the regime is the only non-party to the NPT in West Asia that pursues clandestine nuclear activities and possesses tens of nuclear warheads, with its officials brazenly threatening to use them.

He also complained about “persistent systematic efforts” by a group of states aimed at demonizing the inalienable right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy or artificially linking it to proliferation concerns.

Meanwhile, he warned that the IAEA’s safeguards are being implemented in a “very discriminatory, politicized and highly restrictive manner” to make the world’s countries abandon their inherent right to develop a national nuclear fuel cycle.

“The worst is that the US - one of the Treaty’s depositories - publicly and explicitly forces Iran to fully abandon the exercise of this inherent right,” he asserted.

“And, when this unlawful demand was categorically rejected, the US, along with a nuclear armed non-party to the NPT, has waged two wars of aggression and massively targeted a State Party’s safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities.”

The US and the Zionist regime waged two criminal wars on Iran, including the 12-day one in June 2025 this year’s 40-day one in February 28, with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders.

In response to both imposed wars, the Iranian armed forces conducted waves of successful strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.

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