IAEA’s Credibility in Tatters, NPT All But Dead

Reading Time: 4 minutes The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), once regarded as the impartial guardian of peaceful nuclear cooperation, is now facing a legitimacy crisis of historic proportions. Growing evidence suggests that the agency has not only failed in its mandate to ensure equal treatment of member states but may have actively contributed wittingly or otherwise to hostile intelligence and military operations targeting Iran. This breakdown of trust has serious implications for the agency’s future, and for the viability of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which today appears functionally obsolete for states outside the Western strategic orbit. IAEA’s Complicity: From Inspectors to Assassins’ Maps Allegations of IAEA complicity in the covert war on Iran’s nuclear programme are no longer speculative—they are grounded in a well-documented pattern. Since 2010, a series of assassinations and sabotage operations have struck Iranian scientists, engineers, and nuclear facilities. Victims such as Dr. Massoud Ali