國際原子能總署理事會將伊朗案提交安全理事會

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理事會於9月7日舉行特別會議，總幹事葛羅西在會上表示，由於缺乏准入與資訊，總署無法查證伊朗已申報之核材料與設施的狀態，並稱此情況是嚴重的擴散關切，必須以最急迫的方式處理。9月9日，理事會以23票贊成、3票反對、8票棄權，通過由法國、德國、英國與美國提出的決議，認定伊朗未遵守其防護協定義務，並將此檔案提交聯合國安全理事會。伊朗駐維也納常任代表Reza Najafi稱該決議是一項政治工具；外交部發言人Esmail Baghaei在表決前曾表示，若檔案被提交，德黑蘭將採取反制措施。截至9月13日，尚未宣布任何反制措施，而自戰爭爆發以來，除布希爾外，任何已申報場址都未進行過檢查。

THE FILE HAS MOVED FROM A TECHNICAL BODY TO A POLITICAL ONE, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE OF WHAT HAPPENED. A referral changes the forum, not the facts: the Agency's position on 9 September is the same position it held on 4 June, and nothing in the resolution restores access, obtains an inspection or establishes anything about the programme. It matters for two reasons that have nothing to do with enrichment. First, it exhausts the Agency's own escalation ladder — after a referral the Board has no further step, so the question of what to do about Iranian non-cooperation now belongs to a Council on which two permanent members can veto any measure, which is why the move is widely read as declaratory. Second, it removes the last procedural reason for Tehran to keep the Agency's file open as a bargaining position, and the module's nuclear observable — an inspection actually carried out at a declared site other than Bushehr — becomes harder to meet, not easier. What this record does not do is grade Iran's conduct. The absence of verification establishes neither that enrichment continued nor that it stopped, in this week as in every week since February, and the referral does not change that symmetry.

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