U.N. nuclear agency to hold extraordinary meeting on Iran on March 2
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U.N. nuclear agency to convene an extraordinary meeting on Iran's nuclear program following recent U.S.-Israeli strikes.
The United Nations’ nuclear agency will hold an extraordinary meeting on Iran on Monday (March 2, 2026) in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic, aimed in part at Tehran’s atomic programme.
In a statement late on Saturday (February 28), the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the meeting was at the request of Russia, a key ally of Tehran.
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Iran had made the same request in a letter to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi on Saturday (February 28) following the strikes, which led to the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
As a result, the agency will hold a “special session of the IAEA Board of Governors on matters related to military strikes of the United States and Israel against the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, the IAEA said in a statement.
That extraordinary meeting will precede an already scheduled session of the board, which represents 35 countries.
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