Iran’s UN envoy says there’s no threat to IAEA officials after newspaper calls for Grossi’s execution

By AFP 29 June 2025, 9:16 pm

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Iranian Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani (C) speaks during a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting in New York on June 22, 2025. (Bryan R. SMITH / AFP)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it posed no threat to the head of the UN nuclear watchdog and its inspectors after an Iranian newspaper called for the execution of the International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi.

“No, there is not any threat” against the inspectors or the director general, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, says in an interview with US broadcaster CBS when asked about calls in an ultra-conservative newspaper for the agency’s chief to be executed as a spy. The ambassador says inspectors in Iran were “in safe conditions.”