Iran referred to UN Security Council for nuclear non-compliance

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has referred Iran to the Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing non-compliance with non-proliferation treaty obligations. The IAEA board passed a resolution in Vienna citing lack of information on Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile and denied inspector access to nuclear facilities. Tehran blames US and Israeli strikes for disrupting inspections. New sanctions remain unlikely due to Chinese and Russian veto powers.

They attack Iran's safeguarded nuclear facilities, disrupt the normal process of verification, and then use that very disruption as a pretext to issue a resolution.