ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), said on Wednesday that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors are not allowed in the country as they failed to fulfill their duties under Tehran’s new nuclear law.

“Our basis for working with the IAEA is based on the new parliament law… Until this moment, the IAEA has not fulfilled its legal duty,” Eslami told state-run IRNA news agency on the sidelines of the government meeting on Wednesday.

The Iranian parliament voted on a bill in June to suspend cooperation between Tehran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.

The law limits the corporation unless IAEA commits to protecting information about Iran's nuclear program and hold the US and Israel accountable for their attack. The approval report of the AEOI and the approval of the Supreme National Security Council are also required.

“Therefore, the presence of inspectors does not take place based on the Agency's own programs,” Eslami said, emphasizing the IAEA's failure to fulfill its legal duties, including condemning attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities and guaranteeing the protection of nuclear information following the Israeli and US strikes.

IAEA “should have condemned the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, which it has not, and also has not issued any statement regarding the guarantee of protection of information related to the country's nuclear industry,” Eslami said. 

“As long as these actions are not taken, the parliament law is not executable.”

He further noted that nuclear watchdogs visited only the Bushehr and Tehran reactor sites with the approval of the two monitoring governmental bodies before leaving the country.

According to the law, the IAEA inspectors will not be allowed to visit Iran, and submitting reports to the agency will be halted until the security of Iran’s nuclear facilities is ensured, following a 12-day air campaign in which Israel and the US struck Iran’s main nuclear sites.