How the US blew up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and discredited the IAEA
And made the world a far more dangerous place
The Zionist entity’s unprovoked and illegal June 13th attack on Iran’s nuclear sites was aided and abetted by the United States with assistance from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It may have dealt a death blow to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), created to contain the spread of nuclear weapons.
Signed in 1968 by major nuclear and non-nuclear powers, the NPT has 191 nations as signatories including five nuclear weapon states - China, France, Russia, UK and the US. Iran signed the NPT in 1970. Israel, an undeclared nuclear weapons state, has not.
The NPT embodies a crucial tradeoff. In exchange for not developing nuclear weapons, signatories are entitled to engage in peaceful nuclear energy and research to the maximum level of their capabilities. Iran has every right to enrich uranium as long as it’s for peaceful purposes. Article IV of the NPT states:
Nothing in this treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.
The IAEA, the agency that verifies compliance with the NPT, never found Iran to be in breach of its obligations under the treaty - until now.
The IAEA’s current Director General, Rafael Grossi (who is Jewish), allowed the US and Israel to use the agency to manufacture an excuse for Israel to start a war with Iran.
The day before Israel’s June 13th attack, the 35 member IAEA board voted in favour of a resolution claiming Iran was out of compliance with its IAEA obligations. 19 members voted for the resolution, 3 against (Russia, China, Burkina Faso), 11 abstained and 2 didn’t vote.
There was arm-twisting. Two days before the vote, the US contacted “eight countries that it viewed as potentially persuadable, urging them to either vote with the US on the IAEA vote or not vote at all, according to a US official. The move marked a major engagement from the US on the issue, which Israel pointed to as one of its rationales for its strikes.”
While Grossi was publicly stating that Iran wasn’t pursuing a nuclear weapon and that diplomacy was the way forward, he was paving Israel’s path to war with Iran.
The “evidence” for the IAEA non-compliance resolution came from the Palentir AI platform Mosaic, which the agency has used since 2015. (Palentir’s AI systems are utilised by the ZOF to target and murder Palestinians and the UK government has heavily invested in Palentir predictive AI software for the MoD, Police, Local Authorities and the NHS).
Mosaic sifts through millions of data points to predict nuclear threats by identifying and inferring 'hostile intent' from metadata, behavioural patterns and signal traffic, not from confirmed evidence. It assumes what people may be thinking, not what they have actually done. As DD Geopolitics explained:
Mosaic isn’t just a database—it’s a strategic weapon. Palantir’s promotional materials boast it helps “visualize and prepare for escalations,” mapping sites, tagging nuclear experts, and analyzing regional threats. This power materialized in the IAEA’s May 31, 2025, report, declaring Iran’s 408.6kg of 60% enriched uranium, a non-compliance breach at sites like Lavisan-Shian and Turquzabad. On June 6, a U.S.-led IAEA resolution censured Iran 19-3, the first in 20 years, prompting Tehran’s cry of “political theatre.” Six days later, Israel struck.
A coincidence? Not exactly. A day before the hit, Iran leaked documents showing that Grossi shared Mosaic analysis with Israel.
No country will ever again trust the IAEA. Its reputation is in the gutter, which doesn’t bode well for the future of the NPT.
If US and Israel’s goal was to ensure Iran never developed a nuclear weapon, they’ve achieved just the opposite. Iran now has every incentive to develop the bomb and it would be justified in doing so. It’s actually extraordinary that Iran hasn’t pursued a bomb before now, given that for decades it has been existentially threatened by the US and the Zionist entity. Having the bomb would have protected them, as it has protected North Korea.
Furthermore, other nuclear countries are prepared to supply Iran with their own warheads. Pakistan and North Korea come to mind.
The US and Israel have succeeded in discrediting the IAEA and blowing up the NPT. Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the IAEA and is debating whether to pull out of the NPT. Well done.
No nation should be happy about this. Russia and China are incandescent. They don’t want Iran to go nuclear and have always defended the NPT. Russia was an original signatory and has always abided by the treaty.
In perfect English, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued a warning for the IAEA, US and Israel:
Everyone needs to be careful, especially the [IAEA] Director General and his staff and focus as much as possible on their professional duties, not allowing their professional activities to be politicised… and of course all parties to the NPT, are obliged to uphold the principle that it is the governments who are responsible for making decisions and the Secretariat must present the facts as honestly as possible and not yield to pressure from anyone.
Lavrov said the IAEA’s report was
prepared under intense pressure from western countries, primarily Germany, France, Britain and the US. Many of the report’s formulations had certain ambiguities that were immediately seized upon by the 4 western countries I just mentioned. Based on these ambiguities or excessive hints in DG Grossi’s report, they drafted a resolution that barely scraped together the necessary half of the votes in the IAEA board of governors… In essence with its deliberately alarmist tone, it gave Israel an additional pretext to launch the operation justifying it among other things by the supposed opinion of the IAEA.
Of course, the UK dutifully fell into line behind the US:
Notwithstanding the West’s blatant political interference, Lavrov stated:
Russia is interested in ensuring that Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA continues and that everyone respects the repeated statements made by Iran and the Supreme Leader that Iran does not have and will not have plans to develop nuclear weapons. There is a special fatwah on this matter, a religious document that holds the highest authority in the Islamic Republic.
For the sake of the world, I hope the NPT survives and that the IAEA’s credibility is restored. But I’m not optimistic.
The US and its European puppets have singlehandedly inverted the logic of nuclear proliferation. Restraint, such as that practiced by Iran, once signaled credibility. Now it invites risk. That makes the world a far more dangerous place.
Remarkable research and very well written piece, Leah.
From a personal point of lack of knowledge, those horrific attacks on Iran just felt astounding, as in wtaf.
I never imagined the utilisation of such extreme force could be based on flimsy, disputable evidence.
You’ve described, by gathering factual information, the political manoeuvring which has taken place. And we wonder why World Wars happen……
Something is rotten in the state of the Western World.
For 75 years much of the world has lived with Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). One has to ask why Israel is not willing to live with it. Iran is no more willing to be destroyed in a nuclear war than any other nation. The reason is of course that Israel is determined to dominate and intimidate other countries in the region at her will. And the United States supports Israel's regional hegemony.
Nuclear weapons are a risk to the future of mankind, but Israeli claims that Iran is a rogue state and cannot be trusted are utterly hypocritical. The last time Iran was a peaceful democratic state was just before her government was overthrown with British and Americans assistance in 1953. She has a right to be hostile to the West, and a right to support the Palestinians. If there is a rogue state it is Israel, the state responsible for the Palestinian Holocaust.
One of the antisemitic tropes is that Jewish people cannot be trusted because they have split loyalties. However, here we have the Jewish IAEA's Director General apparently colluding with Israel. Another example of possible split loyalties are the two senior Jewish journalists in the Middle Eastern division of the BBC who are accused of pro-Israeli bias. Not only do individuals have questionable loyalties, but, more powerful in their support of Israel are the Jewish groups in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Europe . These groups, such as IAPAC have had profound effects on American politics; pushing the US to do the bidding of Netanyahu. In the UK Jewish groups have been responsible for the political assassination of Jeremy Corbyn and giving financial support to UK Cabinet Members. Were these people simply attempting to improve relations between their respective countries and Israel this would not be an issue in times of peace. Were Israel a nation that follows international law, this would not be an issue. Were Israel a country that had not brutally suppressed and dispossessed Palestinians, this would not be an issue. Were Israel not a country guilty of genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity, this would not be an issue. But Israel is a brutal, dangerous rogue state, and it is an issue. A sensitive issue, but nevertheless an important issue.