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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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Cliff-hanger: Ciattarelli, Sherrill claim upper hand in crucial New Jersey showdown for governor
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BELLEVILLE, N.J. – As the competitive and combustible race for New Jersey governor barrels towards a possible photo finish, both major party nominees are playing up the positives.
«Our polling’s looking good. I think we’re feeling really good right now,» Democratic nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill touted as she spoke with Fox News Digital after headlining a major party gathering this week in this northern New Jersey township.
But with a week and a half to go until Election Day, the latest public opinion polls in one of only two races for governor in the nation this year suggest that Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli is narrowing the gap with Sherrill in one of only two races for governor this year across the country.
«I think we’re in a great position,» Ciattarelli said in a Fox News interview after a diner stop in Linden, N.J.
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In a state where registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans despite a GOP surge in registration this decade, four public opinion polls released over the past two weeks — from Fox News, Quinnipiac University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Rutgers-Eagleton — indicated Ciattarelli tightening the margins with Sherrill in the race to succeed the term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. Other public and internal surveys suggest a margin of error contest.
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«As you know, many of these polls have a dead heat. And that’s in a state in which Republicans typically under poll because we are the minority party,» Ciattarelli said. «And when you have the endorsement of Democratic mayors across the state, it says people want change. That’s exactly what we’re going to deliver when we win this race.»
Ciattarelli, who has crisscrossed the campaign trail in the Garden State this summer and autumn, has drawn energetic crowds at his stops during the closing stretch of the campaign. And with early voting about to get underway, he’s urging his supporters to cast their ballots.
Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor in New Jersey, speaks to supporters at a diner in Saddle Brook, N.J. on Oct. 15, 2025 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
«Early voting starts this Saturday. We turn out, we win. Let’s finish strong,» he urged.
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President Donald Trump will hold a tele-rally with Ciattarelli ahead of Election Day. And also helping him make sure low propensity Trump supporters vote during an off-election year when the president isn’t on the ballot have been some top MAGA stars, including Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former White House contender Vivek Ramaswamy and Rep. Byron Donalds, the top candidate for Florida governor next year.
«Jack’s been running a great campaign. I’ve been watching it from down in the Sunshine State. But it’s about winning. We got to help everybody get across the line,» Donalds told Fox News.
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli, left, is joined by GOP Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida at a diner in Linden, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News )
Former Rahway, N.J. GOP chair Patrick Cassio, who was at the Ciattarelli-Donalds diner stop in Linden, told Fox News that «a lot of Trump voters do not vote for anybody else, so getting guys out that they like will get them out to vote.»
And he noted that «four years ago, 400,000 Republicans didn’t vote. So, think about that. He [Ciattarelli] picks up half of that, he wins. The math is pretty simple.»
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Ciattarelli, who’s making his third straight run for Garden State governor, and who nearly upset Murphy four years ago, says things are different this time around.
«Because of the closeness of that race in ’21, people are paying closer attention this time around,» Ciattarelli said.
Rep. Mikell Sherrill of New Jersey, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, speaks at a news conference on Oct. 13, 2025 in Clifton, N.J. (Mikie Sherrill campaign)
But Sherrill criticized her Republican rival as a «kind of a perennial candidate.»
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Sherrill, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who flew helicopters during her military service and who was first elected to Congress in 2018, is also enjoying plenty of company on the campaign trail. Last weekend she was joined by Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Wes Moore of Maryland — who are considered potential 2028 White House contenders. And former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, two more potential presidential candidates, are on deck.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie of New Jersey, left, teams up on the campaign trail with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, in Newark, N.J. on Oct. 19, 2025. (Mikie Sherrill campaign )
And Sherrill’s campaign announced this week that the most popular Democrat in the country — former President Barack Obama — will headline a rally with her in Newark on Nov. 1, the final weekend before Election Day.
While Sherrill has faced criticism by Republicans and some political pundits for a lack of energy on the campaign trail, she pointed to her get-out-the-vote operation.
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«We’re seeing great returns on the vote by mails. We’ll start early voting the 25th, which we’re really excited about. We’re seeing a ton of energy on the ground,» she told Fox News.
And Sherrill touted that her campaign has «the biggest volunteer field program that anyone in New Jersey has ever run… We are getting the right doors, and I’m really excited about what we’re gonna see.»
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Cinco hembras de bonobo atacaron a un macho adulto, identificado como Hugo, en el parque nacional de Salonga, en la República Democrática del Congo. La agresión fue observada sin que ningún congénere interviniera.
El ataque, registrado por integrantes del Proyecto Bonobo Luikotale, se extendió durante 25 minutos. Este incidente desató debates en la comunidad científica por la intensidad y organización del linchamiento.
Los científicos que documentaron el hecho informaron que Hugo intentó protegerse en el suelo, mientras las hembras lo golpearon, mordieron y le causaron múltiples lesiones graves. La agresión comenzó con una explosión de vocalizaciones que alertó al equipo de observadores.
Según precisó la investigación publicada en la revista Current Biology, al llegar, encontraron a Hugo tendido boca abajo, rodeado por Polly, Tao, Ngola, Djulie y Bella, las cinco hembras adultas que lo atacaron de forma alternada.
Los especialistas detallaron que las agresoras lo pisotearon, mordieron la cabeza, el cuello, las extremidades y le provocaron heridas profundas en el rostro, los labios y las cejas.
Al final de la paliza, Hugo perdió gran parte de su pelo en la cabeza, los hombros y la espalda. Sufrió también la pérdida de falanges en los pies y daños severos en las manos, los genitales y el cuello.
Según los investigadores, el resto de los bonobos del grupo observó el episodio en silencio y a distancia. Nadie intentó ayudar o mediar, lo que resultó inquietante para los primatólogos especializados en la especie.
En los días previos, se registró que Hugo había ejercido un comportamiento agresivo hacia la cría de Bella, la más joven de las hembras participantes. Este antecedente motivó interrogantes sobre un posible motivo de defensa colectiva por parte de las hembras.
De acuerdo a National Geographic, el bonobo, conocido como Pan paniscus, es una de las especies más cercanas al ser humano. Suelen habitar zonas remotas y selváticas del Congo, lo que dificulta estudios extensivos y directos sobre su comportamiento.
Hasta hace algunos años, se les consideraba primates excepcionalmente pacíficos, propensos a resolver conflictos a través de interacciones sociales y prácticas sexuales, más que mediante agresiones.
La evidencia tradicional mostraba que el sexo entre bonobos cumplía funciones sociales: alivio de tensiones, bienvenida de miembros nuevos o fortalecimiento de vínculos, reduciendo así la violencia directa.
Estudios previos, como los realizados por el primatólogo Frans de Wall, documentaban que los bonobos, a diferencia de los chimpancés, practicaban la reconciliación tras una disputa en vez de formar coaliciones violentas o participar en guerras entre grupos.
Sin embargo, investigaciones más recientes describieron casos en los que los bonobos exhiben conductas agresivas, incluso superiores en frecuencia a los chimpancés, especialmente cuando se trata de machos.
La comunidad científica señala que el liderazgo social dentro de los grupos de bonobos lo ocupan principalmente las hembras. Ellas desarrollan relaciones complejas, donde el fortalecimiento de alianzas influye en la estabilidad del grupo.
El reciente estudio, basado en observaciones sistemáticas y prolongadas, estima que hasta el 85% de las coaliciones violentas orientadas al dominio de los machos son protagonizadas por las hembras.
Los recursos compartidos y la protección de las crías juegan un papel central en la estructura social y en la toma de decisiones para emplear la violencia como mecanismo de control o sanción. La razón por la que las hembras de bonobo, habitualmente asociadas a vínculos sociales, deciden emplear la agresión sigue en estudio.
Los autores del artículo en Current Biology sostienen que la consolidación del estatus dominante y el fortalecimiento de los lazos pueden traer ventajas inmediatas, como la defensa de recursos, y de largo plazo, como la prevención del infanticidio.
El infanticidio, frecuente entre otras especies, suele beneficiar a los machos, ya que incrementa su éxito reproductivo. Sin embargo, en el caso de los bonobos, las hembras recurren a la violencia para proteger a sus crías y sostener la cohesión del grupo.
Durante el ataque, Hugo se mantuvo pasivo y no intentó huir. Las lesiones sufridas incluyeron cortes profundos, mutilaciones y pérdida de piel.
El informe señala que no se lo volvió a ver en los 150 días posteriores al evento, lo que sugiere que probablemente falleció por las heridas.
Este caso desafía el retrato tradicional de los bonobos como una especie eminentemente pacífica. Aunque la evidencia científica refuerza que la resolución de conflictos mediante la sexualidad mantiene su lugar central en la vida social de la especie, aumenta el número de estudios que describen el uso de la violencia por parte de hembras para mantener el equilibrio interno del grupo.
La agresión de cinco hembras de bonobo a un macho adulto bajo la mirada impasible del grupo, sin intervención de ningún individuo, revela una complejidad social más profunda de lo que se creía.
El hecho de que la violencia pueda surgir en sistemas regidos por redes sociales sólidas y estructuras matriarcales pone en foco la necesidad de continuar investigando los factores que influyen en el comportamiento social de nuestros parientes más cercanos.
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