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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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Así son las tres nuevas especies de ranas identificadas en una región remota de Perú

En la Cordillera de Huancabamba, al norte de Perú, un equipo de científicos descubrió tres nuevas especies de ranas terrestres. Este hallazgo, realizado entre 2021 y 2024, fue liderado por el herpetólogo Germán Chávez y publicado en la revista Evolutionary Systematics.
Las especies Pristimantis chinguelas, Pristimantis nunezcortezi y Pristimantis yonke amplían el conocimiento sobre la biodiversidad andina y destacan la fragilidad de los ecosistemas de montaña frente a amenazas ambientales.
“Estas ranas nos recuerdan cuánto nos falta por conocer de los Andes”, afirmó Chávez en un comunicado de prensa. Asimismo, el descubrimiento resalta la importancia de la Cordillera de Huancabamba como un refugio de especies únicas, según Wilmar Aznaran, coautor del estudio.
La Cordillera de Huancabamba, en el noroeste de Perú, es de difícil acceso debido a su terreno accidentado y clima variable. Aunque no supera los 4.000 metros de altitud, el escarpado relieve y las condiciones meteorológicas hacen que explorar la zona sea un reto. Desde la década de 1990, pocos científicos han trabajado allí, registrando 29 especies de anfibios, muchas de ellas endémicas.

Entre 2021 y 2024, el equipo de Chávez realizó expediciones nocturnas en localidades como el Cerro Chinguelas, la ruta a Laguna Negra y el Bosque de Ramos, en las provincias de Huancabamba y Ayabaca, en Piura. Durante las expediciones, que se realizaron en las estaciones de lluvias y sequía, recorrieron hasta seis horas por noche, utilizando linternas para rastrear los anfibios en diversos microhábitats.
Las tres especies descubiertas tienen características distintivas que se relacionan con su entorno.
Pristimantis chinguelas fue encontrada en un acantilado del Cerro Chinguelas, a 2.849 metros de altura. Es una rana de tamaño mediano, con un cuerpo cubierto de tubérculos y un canto agudo. Su color varía entre amarillo ocre y marrón castaño. Su nombre honra el lugar donde fue hallada.
Pristimantis nunezcortezi habita cerca de un arroyo, en un bosque en regeneración, a 2.593 metros de altura. Su color marrón rojizo con motas rojas y su vientre naranja la distinguen. Fue nombrada en honor al ornitólogo Elio Núñez-Cortez, pionero en la conservación de la región.

Pristimantis yonke, la más pequeña de las tres, se encontró en bromelias a casi 3.000 metros de altura. Su nombre hace referencia al “yonque”, un aguardiente tradicional para soportar el frío. Su color va del marrón oscuro al canela, con detalles en crema y amarillo en las extremidades. Esta especie parece estar especializada en las bromelias.
El género Pristimantis es el grupo de anfibios más diverso de América Latina, con 619 especies registradas. La taxonomía de este género es compleja debido a la gran variabilidad morfológica de las especies, algunas difíciles de diferenciar a simple vista.
Para describir las nuevas especies, el equipo utilizó un enfoque integrador que combinó análisis morfológicos, genéticos y bioacústicos. Los análisis genéticos mostraron que las especies difieren en más del 3% de sus parientes más cercanos, lo que confirma su distinción.
A pesar del descubrimiento, el futuro de estas ranas es incierto. Durante las expediciones, los científicos notaron la degradación de su hábitat por incendios y la expansión agrícola. Entre 2001 y 2023, se perdieron alrededor de 5.000 hectáreas de ecosistemas naturales, y los recientes incendios podrían haber afectado aún más los hábitats de estas especies.

Por ahora, las tres especies están clasificadas como “Datos Insuficientes” por la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN), ya que no hay suficiente información sobre su distribución o tamaño poblacional. Cada especie ocupa áreas menores a 10 km² y se han encontrado pocos ejemplares.
El equipo de investigación subraya la urgencia de realizar más estudios, especialmente durante la próxima temporada seca, cuando el riesgo de incendios es mayor.
Los científicos insisten en que la Cordillera de Huancabamba ofrece una oportunidad única para descubrir y proteger especies desconocidas. La falta de información sobre el riesgo de extinción de las nuevas ranas resalta la necesidad de tomar medidas de conservación y seguir investigando la región.
El estudio concluye con una advertencia: la exploración de la zona recién comienza, y su rica biodiversidad podría perderse antes de ser completamente comprendida. La publicación busca no solo dar a conocer el hallazgo, sino también impulsar la protección de uno de los últimos refugios de biodiversidad en los Andes peruanos.
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Congressman calls on Noem, Dr. Oz with plan to ‘swiftly remove’ 1.4 million illegal migrants on Medicaid

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Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, sent letters to two key agency heads with a plan to «swiftly» remove roughly 1.4 million illegal immigrants currently receiving Medicaid in the US.
«While Democrats in Congress continue to peddle falsehoods and fear-mongering over so-called ‘Medicaid cuts,’ they conveniently ignore a staggering truth: over 1.4 million illegal aliens are receiving Medicaid benefits, an unsustainable burden on the American taxpayer,» Hunt told Fox News Digital.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz were both recipients of Rep. Hunt’s letter this week, which proposed a task force to «identify» and remove the illegal migrants on Medicaid.
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«I’ve formally requested the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a task force to identify those unlawfully exploiting our healthcare system and ensure they are swiftly removed from our country,» Hunt added.
The Texas Congressman’s comments come as President Donald Trump’s «One Big Beautiful Bill,» which includes a provision stripping illegal migrants from taxpayer-funded healthcare, faces last-minute changes in the Senate.
Fox News Digital obtained a document from the Congressional Budget Office sent to two GOP committee chairmen this week with information regarding the «One Big Beautiful Bill» that reads:
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«About 1.4 million would be people who do not meet citizenship and immigration status requirements for Medicaid enrollment but who would be covered under current law in programs funded by the states.»

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks along Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the news conference Senate Republicans discussed progress with consideration of U.S. President Donald Trump’s «The One Big Beautiful Bill» budget and tax reconciliation bill. (Getty Images)
On Thursday, the Senate Parliamentarian moved to strike out current language in the legislation that would exclude illegal immigrants from Medicaid eligibility, but sources close to negotiations tell Fox News Digital that those portions of the bill are actively being re-drafted in an attempt to ensure they are included in the final draft of the bill.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, also addressed the parliamentarian’s decision to remove the portions about Medicaid to reporters Thursday morning.
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«These are speed bumps along the way. We anticipated those and so we have contingency plans,» Thune explained. «Obviously, you have to adjust the timing and schedule a little bit, but we’re moving forward.»
Regardless of whether Medicaid is removed from the «One Big Beautiful Bill,» Congressman Hunt says that being able to identify the free healthcare-receiving illegal migrants alone is enough reason to remove them from the US.

Newly sworn in Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House on April 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Oz spoke of a desire to provide America access to great care while reducing chronic disease and modernizing Medicare and Medicaid. (Andrew Harnik)
«Through coordinated efforts between DHS and CMS, we can develop an effective approach to identify people based on financial data, residence, or medical records, and then take appropriate action against those violating our immigration laws,» Hunt’s letter to Noem and Dr. Oz reads.
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«We must protect American resources for American citizens. End of discussion.»
Preston Mizell is a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips can be sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and on X @MizellPreston
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