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UN’s atomic agency’s Iran policy gets mixed reviews from experts after US-Israel ‘obliterate’ nuclear sites

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JERUSALEM – After 12 days of fighting, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory against Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump declared three nuclear sites had been obliterated, as Netanyahu announced that Israel had «removed an immediate dual existential threat: both in the nuclear domain and in the area of ballistic missiles» – achievements the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) failed to reach throughout some 20 years of monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
Dr. Or Rabinowitz, a nuclear proliferation scholar from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting associate professor at Stanford University, told Fox News Digital that the IAEA «cannot, by itself, stop a country that wants to divert nuclear material and technology from its civilian program to its military program.»
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A map shows where Iran’s most important nuclear facilities are situated. (Fox News/FDD)
«It can warn, and that’s what it has been doing,» she said. «Sometimes these warnings led to United Nations Security Council resolutions, and sometimes they didn’t, but the IAEA by itself, can’t do more than that – it is only as strong as the board members and the countries that participate in it.»
Days before Israel launched its military assault on Iran with the aim of removing the nuclear – and conventional – weapons threat, the global nuclear watchdog reported that Iran had an estimated 408.6 kilograms (nearly 901 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60%, enough to make some nine nuclear bombs.
The report, which also criticized Iran’s lack of cooperation with the IAEA, prompted the agency’s board of governors, for the first time in 20 years, to declare that the Islamic Republic was in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a close up view of holes and craters on a ridge at Fordow enrichment facility in Iran after U.S. strikes, Sunday, Jun. 22, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP) (Maxar Technologies via AP)
«We shouldn’t be surprised by this failure, and we should add to this failure, the failure of the United Nations,» said Dr. Yoel Guzansky, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Guzansky highlighted the fact that just a week ago, in the midst of launching hundreds of ballistic missiles into Israeli towns and cities, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addressed the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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«Iran was welcomed there, and Israel was bashed,» he noted.
«It just shows that the U.N. system has long failed, and is long in need of remodeling, remaking, rebuilding,» Guzansky continued, adding that compared to other U.N. bodies, «the IAEA is fairly okay.»
«It’s not black and white, it has had some achievements, but it depends on what your expectations are,» he continued. «I don’t think anyone expected that the IAEA would entirely prevent Iran.»
Guzansky said that two decades of inspections and such reports had actually allowed Israel, and the U.S., to «gather intelligence and an understanding of Iran’s nuclear program» – a fact that was tested over the past week and a half.

A massive plume of smoke and fire rise from an oil refinery in southern Tehran following reports that an overnight Israeli strike targeted the site on Jun. 15, 2025. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
Iran has consistently maintained that all its nuclear activities were entirely peaceful and that it would never seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.
«The real problem here isn’t necessarily the IAEA, it’s that Iran has been cheating for 20 years and has not been playing a straight bat,» said Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society.
«Iran has been confusing and tricking and secretly developing programs, which the IAEA has not been able to access,» he said, adding, «so, in many ways, it’s not the IAEA fault, per se, it doesn’t have any enforcement capabilities — its job is just to monitor.»
Mendoza also said that Iran’s ability to advance its nuclear ambitions and enrich uranium to weapons grade level was «really the fault of the international community, rather than an agency.»
«This could have been cracked down upon years ago, as we have now seen, whether by military or other means, to actually force Iran into compliance,» he said.
«What this ultimately shows you is that when you have an international malefactor who continues to want to game the system, the only way to deal with them is to blow up the system and say, ‘Okay, you want to play it that way,’ well, here’s our response.»

June 9, 2025; Austria, Wien: Rafael Grossi is increasingly concerned about Iran’s nuclear program. (Albert Otti/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Despite the U.S. and Israel’s successful use of force, the IAEA has held back from commending their actions.
At an emergency session of the agency’s board members on Monday, Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s Director General, was still urging diplomacy and warning that fighting risked «collapsing the global nuclear Non Proliferation regime.»
«There is still a path for diplomacy, we must take it, otherwise violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels, and the global Non-Proliferation regime that has underpinned international security for more than half a century could crumble and fall,» he said, without a word about Iran’s lack of transparency and its clear violation of international agreements over more than two decades.

A Ghadr-H missile, center, a Sejjil missile and a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are on display for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 (AP)
But on Tuesday, two days after the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on three key nuclear sites in Iran, Grossi told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum that his agency did not know where nearly 900 pounds of potentially enriched uranium is now located, after Iranian officials said it had been removed for protective measures ahead of the US strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran.
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«Like all the international bodies who have been condemning US and Israeli action, these organizations exist for the purpose solely of diplomacy,» Mendoza said, adding, «The agency doesn’t have any military function. It has no recourse to it. It can’t call for it, so, if you think about it, all they’re doing is merely protecting their position within the international system.»
Requests for a response from the IAEA were not immediately answered on Wednesday.
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EN VIVO: Estados Unidos destruyó 28 buques iraníes dedicados a colocar minas en el Estrecho de Ormuz

El presidente Donald Trump afirmó que las operaciones militares buscan impedir que Irán amenace el tráfico marítimo en una de las rutas energéticas más importantes del mundo
Irán atacó este miércoles al menos dos buques comerciales en el estrecho de Ormuz e impuso una exigencia sin precedentes: cualquier navío que pretenda cruzar el paso estratégico deberá obtener “permiso” de Teherán. Los Guardianes de la Revolución confirmaron haber alcanzado con proyectiles el portacontenedores de bandera liberiana Express Rome y el carguero tailandés Mayuree Naree, mientras el mando militar iraní advirtió que todos los buques vinculados a Estados Unidos, Israel o sus aliados serán considerados “objetivos legítimos”. La marina de Omán rescató a 20 tripulantes del Mayuree Naree, aunque tres personas seguían desaparecidas.
El bloqueo efectivo del estrecho, por donde transita normalmente el 20% del crudo y el gas natural licuado mundial, llevó a los líderes del G7 a reunirse por videoconferencia para coordinar una liberación masiva de reservas estratégicas de petróleo en conjunto con la Agencia Internacional de Energía. Alemania confirmó que la AIE solicitó a sus miembros liberar 400 millones de barriles y que cumplirá con el pedido, mientras Japón anunció que está dispuesto a actuar de manera unilateral antes del lunes sin esperar una decisión formal del organismo. Pese a ello, los precios del crudo subían más de un 5% en las primeras horas de la jornada.
En el frente militar, Israel anunció una nueva “oleada masiva de ataques” contra Irán y objetivos de Hezbollah en Beirut, mientras el ministro de Defensa israelí, Israel Katz, advirtió que la operación continuará “sin límite de tiempo”. Drones iraníes cayeron cerca del aeropuerto de Dubai, hiriendo a cuatro personas, y el nuevo líder supremo iraní, Mojtaba Khamenei, permanece sin aparecer en público en medio de versiones sobre una posible herida, aunque el hijo del presidente iraní aseguró que está “sano y salvo”. Irán reportó más de 1.200 muertos y 10.000 heridos civiles desde el inicio del conflicto.
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Wall Street cerró en baja el miércoles, con los mercados enfocados en la escalada de las hostilidades y las consecuencias económicas de la guerra entre Estados Unidos, Israel e Irán, pese a la publicación de un informe de inflación moderada. El nerviosismo de los inversores estuvo marcado por la preocupación en torno al suministro de petróleo, en medio de ataques de Irán a barcos en el estrecho de Ormuz y la advertencia de Teherán sobre un posible aumento del precio del crudo hasta los 200 dólares por barril, más del doble de su nivel actual.

“Esto hundirá las economías del mundo”, advirtió Saad al-Kaabi, ministro de Energía de Qatar, el 6 de marzo. No era una exageración. Días antes, QatarEnergy, que produce una quinta parte del gas natural licuado (GNL) del mundo, cerró sus instalaciones de producción y exportación después de que algunas fueran alcanzadas por ataques iraníes. Incapaz de extraer, procesar y, debido a que el Estrecho de Ormuz está prácticamente bloqueado por los combates, transportar su GNL, la empresa declaró fuerza mayor en sus contratos. El precio del GNL se ha disparado en los mercados mundiales. Los consumidores de todo el mundo, que lo utilizan para generar electricidad, calentar hogares y fabricar productos como fertilizantes, se apresuran a responder.
Hezbollah dijo que lanzó “decenas de cohetes” contra el norte de Israel en respuesta a los bombardeos en Beirut
El grupo terrorista Hezbollah anunció este miércoles que disparó “decenas de cohetes” hacia el norte de Israel como parte de una nueva operación militar, en medio de la escalada de ataques entre ambas partes.
La ofensiva se produce poco después de que Israel realizara nuevos bombardeos contra los suburbios del sur de Beirut, un área considerada bastión del movimiento respaldado por Irán.
En un comunicado, Hezbollah afirmó que la operación fue ejecutada “en respuesta a la agresión criminal contra decenas de ciudades y pueblos libaneses y los suburbios del sur de Beirut”.
REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
El fabricante estadounidense de dispositivos médicos Stryker sufrió el miércoles un ciberataque masivo que paralizó sus operaciones en todo el mundo. El grupo Handala, vinculado al Ministerio de Inteligencia de Irán según analistas de ciberseguridad, reivindicó la acción y afirmó haber destruido más de 200.000 sistemas, servidores y dispositivos móviles, además de haber extraído 50 terabytes de datos. Las cifras, publicadas por el colectivo en X, no fueron verificadas de forma independiente.
Reportan fuertes bombardeos en el sur de Beirut tras nuevos ataques israelíes
Una serie de potentes ataques aéreos golpeó la zona sur de Beirut este miércoles por la noche, en una nueva escalada del conflicto entre Israel y Hezbollah. Las detonaciones se escucharon en amplias áreas de la capital libanesa, según reportes desde el terreno y medios estatales del país.
Las explosiones se registraron en los suburbios meridionales de la ciudad, un área considerada uno de los principales bastiones de Hezbollah. Imágenes difundidas desde la zona mostraron grandes columnas de humo elevándose sobre los edificios tras los impactos.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel confirmaron que llevaron a cabo nuevos bombardeos en esa zona, donde el grupo armado libanés mantiene presencia e infraestructura. De acuerdo con información oficial libanesa, al menos seis ataques de gran magnitud impactaron distintos puntos del sur de la ciudad.
El régimen de Irán exigió garantías internacionales y compensaciones para poner fin a la guerra
El presidente de Irán, Masud Pezeshkian, aseguró que el conflicto en Medio Oriente solo podrá terminar si se cumplen varias condiciones planteadas por su régimen, entre ellas el reconocimiento de lo que calificó como los “derechos legítimos” del país, el pago de indemnizaciones y la entrega de garantías internacionales que eviten nuevas agresiones militares.
A través de un mensaje publicado en redes sociales, Pezeshkian sostuvo que estas exigencias representan la única vía para cerrar la guerra que estalló tras la ofensiva lanzada el 28 de febrero por Israel y Estados Unidos.
“La única forma de poner fin a esta guerra, desencadenada por el régimen sionista y Estados Unidos, es reconocer los derechos legítimos de Irán, el pago de indemnizaciones y garantías internacionales firmes contra futuras agresiones”, expresó.
En el mismo mensaje, Pezeshkian reiteró que su régimen mantiene su compromiso con la estabilidad regional y aseguró que Irán sigue apostando por la paz en Medio Oriente.
El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU exigió a Irán detener de inmediato los ataques contra países del Golfo
El Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas aprobó este miércoles una resolución que exige a Irán detener inmediatamente los ataques contra varios países del Golfo, en medio de la escalada militar que afecta a Medio Oriente.
El texto fue adoptado con 13 votos a favor y dos abstenciones. En la resolución, el organismo “exige el cese inmediato de todos los ataques de la República Islámica de Irán” contra Bahréin, Kuwait, Omán, Qatar, Arabia Saudita, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Jordania.
Los miembros del Consejo señalaron que estas acciones violan el derecho internacional y advirtieron que constituyen “una grave amenaza para la paz y la seguridad internacionales”.
Israel atacó posiciones de Hezbollah en Líbano tras el lanzamiento de cien cohetes hacia su territorio
La Fuerza Aérea de Israel está llevando a cabo ataques contra lanzadores de cohetes y otras infraestructuras de Hezbollah en territorio libanés, según informó el propio ejército israelí.
La operación se produce después de que el grupo armado lanzara alrededor de 100 cohetes hacia el norte de Israel durante la tarde de este miércoles, en una de las mayores ofensivas del movimiento desde el inicio de la guerra con Irán.
De acuerdo con el comunicado militar, los bombardeos están dirigidos a posiciones utilizadas por Hezbollah para disparar proyectiles y tienen como objetivo evitar nuevos ataques contra territorio israelí.
Las fuerzas armadas señalaron que los aviones de combate están golpeando lanzaderas de cohetes y otras instalaciones vinculadas a la infraestructura operativa del grupo en el sur del Líbano.
Los precios del petróleo prolongaron su senda alcista este miércoles, mientras las principales bolsas mundiales cerraron a la baja, en un contexto marcado por el conflicto en Oriente Medioy la decisión de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE) de liberar 400 millones de barriles de reservas estratégicas. El estrecho de Ormuz, crucial para el comercio global de hidrocarburos, permanece bloqueado por Irán tras los ataques de Estados Unidos e Israel, situación que ha desatado represalias y ataques a instalaciones energéticas en varios países del Golfo.
Estados Unidos advirtió sobre posibles ataques iraníes contra infraestructuras petroleras en Irak
La Embajada de Estados Unidos en Bagdad advirtió sobre la posibilidad de que el régimen de Irán y milicias aliadas lleven a cabo ataques dirigidos a infraestructuras petroleras y energéticas vinculadas a intereses estadounidenses en Irak. El comunicado señala que se han producido atentados recientes contra hoteles frecuentados por estadounidenses, tanto en Bagdad como en otras regiones, incluido el Kurdistán iraquí.
La representación diplomática advirtió que la amenaza sigue siendo significativa y pidió a los ciudadanos estadounidenses extremar precauciones.
“Irán y las milicias terroristas aliadas siguen representando una amenaza significativa para la seguridad pública”, indicó la embajada, al tiempo que recomendó evitar lugares asociados con Estados Unidos o reuniones de ciudadanos estadounidenses, ya que podrían convertirse en objetivos.
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Spain permanently pulls ambassador from Israel amid Iran war

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Spain permanently pulled its ambassador to Israel on Tuesday over its opposition to the U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran, ratcheting up an already tense diplomatic rift between the two countries.
The Spanish government formally terminated the ambassador’s post in its official gazette and said its embassy in Tel Aviv will now be led by a chargé d’affaires indefinitely.
Madrid had recalled its ambassador last September after Israel condemned Spain’s decision to block aircraft and ships carrying weapons to Israel from using Spanish ports or airspace. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called the move antisemitic at the time.
When a reporter on Wednesday asked whether Spain, in general, was cooperating with the U.S., President Donald Trump replied, «No, they’re not. I think they’re not cooperating at all.»
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People walk past damaged buildings following a strike on a police station, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 4, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)
«Spain, I think they’ve been very bad,» the president said. «Very bad. Not good at all. We may cut off trade with Spain.»
«I don’t know what Spain is doing,» Trump continued. «They’ve been very bad to NATO. They get protected, they don’t want to pay their fair share. And they’ve been that way for many years.»
Trump added that the people of Spain «are fantastic,» whereas the leadership is «not so good.»
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Wednesday criticized Spain’s decision to recall its ambassador to Israel permanently as «hard for me to absorb.»
«Spain is a member of NATO, and the United States and Israel are in joint operations against the Iranian regime who openly calls for the destruction of the Jewish State, attacks against the West, and seeks to purify Islam in its own image,» Graham wrote on X.

Spain recalled its ambassador to Israel, the latest flare-up in the rocky diplomatic relationship between the two countries in recent years. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)
«The religious Nazi regime in Iran is the problem, not the Jewish State,» the senator continued. «I hope Spain’s actions will not encourage the tyrannical, fanatical regime in Iran — that abuses its own people — to hang on.»
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Relations between Spain and Israel have deteriorated sharply since Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks.
Israel also downgraded its diplomatic presence in Spain last May after Spain recognized a Palestinian state, placing its own embassy in Madrid under a chargé d’affaires.
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Hawley introduces bill to strip FDA approval from ‘inherently dangerous’ abortion pill

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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing a new bill to strip FDA approval from the popular abortion pill mifepristone. The new bill builds upon proposed legislation Hawley introduced last year that would ban mifepristone and allow women to sue manufacturers profiting off of what the lawmaker deems an «inherently dangerous» drug.
The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act was introduced in the Senate Tuesday and would prohibit the use of mifepristone for ending pregnancies.
«The science is clear: The chemical abortion drug is inherently dangerous to women and prone to abuse. Yet major companies like Danco Laboratories are making billions off it,» Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement. «That’s why I am introducing new legislation to ban the use of mifepristone for abortion and empower women to sue its manufacturers. Congress must act now to protect the health and safety of women.»
If passed, the legislation would withdraw FDA approval for the drug and classify its distribution for abortion as a violation of federal law. In 2023, mifepristone was used in 63% of all abortions in the U.S., according to data from the Guttmacher Institute.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced new legislation Tuesday that would ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, calling it an «inherently dangerous» drug and seeking to revoke its FDA approval. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, also estimates there were 1,038,100 clinician-provided abortions in 2024. However, that figure accounts only for states without abortion bans and does not include abortions performed outside the formal healthcare system or in states where abortion laws differ.
Hawley raised concerns about the abortion pill last May when he introduced a separate bill that would direct the FDA to create safeguards on mifepristone, allowing women who suffered complications the right to sue telehealth providers and pharmacies for damages.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., cited research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center claiming higher rates of complications from mifepristone than listed on the FDA-approved label. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
Research by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) in Washington, D.C., showed the rate of side effects when using mifepristone is 22 times higher than indications from the FDA-approved drug label.
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The study revealed more than 1 in 10 women have reported experiencing «infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event.»
EPPC assessed 865,727 insurance claims between 2017 and 2023 for women who used the medication to terminate early pregnancy. The pill can be taken up to «70 days since the first day of their last menstrual period,» according to the FDA.
During the Biden administration, the FDA revised rules allowing mifepristone to be prescribed via telehealth, meaning patients would not have to physically go to the doctor to receive the abortion drug.
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In 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine challenge that was brought to reverse the FDA’s approval and expansion for access to the drug. The ruling allowed mifepristone to remain available through telehealth and mail.

Hawley penned a letter to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary urging him to review the data and act against the abortion drug mifepristone. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court’s rejection was based on the group’s inability to bring a lawsuit, saying Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacked the legal standing to challenge FDA approval. The merits of the abortion drug were never discussed or questioned in the ruling.
Last May, Hawley sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, whom Hawley questioned during Makary’s Senate confirmation hearing last year.
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«[D]uring your confirmation hearing, you pledged to me that you would ‘review the totality of the data and ongoing data’ to inform action on the drug,» Hawley’s letter to the FDA chief states. «I urge you to follow this new data and take all appropriate action to restore critical safeguards on the use of mifepristone.
«The health and safety of American women depend on it.»
Preston Mizell is a writer with Fox News. Story tips can be sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and on X @MizellPreston
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