“There is no evidence that Iran is making efforts to build a nuclear weapon.” The Atomic Energy Agency has repeated this in various reports in recent years and American intelligence, contradicting Israeli security statements, has also come to the same conclusion. But the repetitiveness of the statements by the government of Tel Aviv, the administration of the United States and even by European allies, including Italy with Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, have made another clarification necessary. This time, the IAEA Director General, Rafael Grossi, put his face out there, repeating in an interview with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour that his Agency, the only one responsible for monitoring the uranium enrichment process of the Islamic Republic, has never collected evidence of the ayatollahs' desire to develop a nuclear weapon.

“We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.” @iaeaorg Director General affirms his agency's findings about Iran's nuclear program.

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) June 17, 2025

Words that dismantle, once again, the line taken by Netanyahu and his government, embraced without hesitation by the United States and Europe, which is the basis of the attack launched against Iran last Friday. Grossi's words, in fact, tell a completely different story:"There is a sort of competition on the necessary timeframes (for the construction of the bomb, ed. note) - he declared - It won't happen tomorrow, but I have to be honest, it's not even a question of years. But it's speculation because we don't know if there are hidden, clandestine or hidden activities from the inspectors. But what we know and what we have reported is that we have no evidence of a systematic effort to build a nuclear weapon".