The Legitimacy Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran's Retaliatory Action Against The International Atomic Energy Agency Following a Military Attack on Peaceful Nuclear Energy Facilities

Nasiri, Valiollah; Rezaei Pishrobat, Saleh; Salimi Turkmani, Hojjat

The Legitimacy Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran's Retaliatory Action Against The International Atomic Energy Agency Following a Military Attack on Peaceful Nuclear Energy Facilities

Document Type : Iran's political issues

Authors

Valiollah Nasiri ¹

Saleh Rezaei Pishrobat ²

Hojjat Salimi Turkmani ³

¹ Ph.D. Student in International Law, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch, Maragheh, Iran

² Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI), Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate professor of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

The politicized, selective, and discriminatory approach of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and the joint attacks by Israel and the United States on Iranian nuclear facilities led the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to adopt a multi-layered policy, a strategy of "deliberate ambiguity," and was legally required to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency based on a law passed by the parliament.The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to examine the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran's countermeasures against the International Atomic Energy Agency in the post-war period and seeks to answer the question of what measures and strategies the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted after the joint attacks by Israel and the United States on nuclear facilities, and whether these measures are justifiable from the perspective of international law. The study is based on the hypothesis that the Islamic Republic of Iran has adopted a countermeasure against the International Atomic Energy Agency from a legal perspective and a policy of "strategic ambiguity" from a strategic perspective, which is justified by Article 14 of the 2011 International Organizations Responsibility Plan

Keywords

Nuclear Rights

War

Countermeasures

Nuclear Ambiguity Strategy

Operation Midnight Hammer

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