Russia: The West weakened the agency's neutrality by politicizing the Iran case.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, spoke to the Russian newspaper "Kommersant", criticizing the political approach of Western countries towards Iran's peaceful nuclear program, and warned that the instrumental use of the IAEA's defense system to put pressure on Tehran weakened the technical foundations of this international organization and questioned the principle of its neutrality.
Irna Jahan