The IAEA as an autonomous organization is not under direct control of the UN, but the IAEA does report to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

He also told the media, soon after the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) released its report on Iran, that the Iranian government is clearly going ahead with its nuclear program.

In written evidence to the same committee, however, Jack Straw further disclosed that the intelligence information upon which the British Government had relied was shared separately with the IAEA by a foreign government shortly before their report of 7 March 2003.

In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) Board of Governors rebuked Iran following an IAEA report detailing how Iran had undertaken research and experiments geared to developing a nuclear weapons capability.

For the first time, the IAEA report outlines, in depth, the country ’ s detonator development, the multiple-point initiation of high explosives, and experiments involving nuclear payload integration into a missile delivery vehicle.

Iran rejected the details of the report and accused the IAEA of pro-Western bias and threatened to reduce its cooperation with the IAEA.

After public allegations about Iran's previously undeclared nuclear activities, the IAEA launched an investigation that concluded in November 2003 that Iran had systematically failed to meet its obligations under its NPT safeguards agreement to report those activities to the IAEA, although it also reported no evidence of links to a nuclear weapons program.

A 23 March 2012 U. S. Congressional Research Service report quotes the 24 February 2012 IAEA report saying that Iran has stockpiled 240 pounds of 20-percent-enriched uranium-an enrichment level necessary for medical applications-as an indication of their capacity to enrich to higher levels.

On nuclear issues, he was a member of the Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction sponsored by Sweden and chaired by Hans Blix which reported in June 2006 ; and the Commission of Eminent Persons on The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond, chaired by Ernesto Zedillo, whose report Reinforcing the Global Nuclear Order for Peace and Prosperity was launched in June 2008.

* Chernobyl catastrophe ; TORCH report ( Rebecca Harms commissioned two UK scientists for an alternate report, entitled TORCH, to the disputed November 2005 IAEA report on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster )

The failure to report was reported by the IAEA Secretariat to the IAEA Board of Governors ; however, the IAEA Board of Governors decided to not make a formal finding of noncompliance.

In a report issued on November 11, 2004, the IAEA described the South Korean government's failure to report its nuclear activities a matter of ' serious concern ', but accepted that these experiments never produced more than very small amounts of weaponizeable fissile material.

* Aijaz Ahmad video on the Real News website Iran: IAEA report sparks controversy.

In preparing their report, the IAEA made two primary recommendations.

Mr. Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

On 3 July 2009, the Board of Governors voted to appoint Yukiya Amano " by acclamation ," and IAEA General Conference in September 2009 approved.

The IAEA's mission is guided by the interests and needs of Member States, strategic plans and the vision embodied in the IAEA Statute ( see below ).

The structure and functions of the IAEA are defined by its founding document, the IAEA Statute ( see below ).

The IAEA is raising money to help efforts by its Member States to save lives and to reduce suffering of cancer victims.

Any of the other IAEA organs, the Director General, the Board and member states can table issues to be discussed by the General Conference ( IAEA Primer ).

Article II of the IAEA Statute defines the Agency's twin objectives as promoting peaceful uses of atomic energy and "< nowiki > ensur </ nowiki >, so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose.

" To do this, the IAEA is authorized in Article III. A. 5 of the Statute " to establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable and other materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military purpose ; and to apply safeguards, at the request of the parties, to any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or at the request of a State, to any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy.

The journal Nature has reported that " the world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety " and that " the public would be better served by an IAEA more able to deliver frank and independent assessments of nuclear crises as they unfold ".

Peer-reviewed safety checks on reactors worldwide, organised by the IAEA, have been proposed.

Japan strongly supports the U. S. in its efforts to encourage Pyongyang to abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

After the passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded that Iraq give " immediate, unconditional and active cooperation " with UN and IAEA inspections, Hussein allowed U. N. weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix to return to Iraq.

* July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31.

In April 2009, reports surfaced that North Korea has become a " fully fledged nuclear power ", an opinion shared by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei.

On October 8, 2008, IAEA inspectors were forbidden by the North Korean government to conduct further inspections of the site.

* North Korea agreed to freeze its existing plutonium enrichment program, to be monitored by the IAEA ;

North Korea posed another serious problem for Perry, who backed the administration's policy of pressuring its Communist regime to allow monitoring of its nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

Iraq was alternately praised and admonished by the IAEA for its cooperation and lack thereof.

Inspections by the UN to resolve the status of unresolved disarmament questions restarted from November 2002 until March 2003, under UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded Saddam give " immediate, unconditional and active cooperation " with UN and IAEA inspections, shortly before his country was attacked.

Brazil secretly aided the Iraqi nuclear weapon program by supplying natural uranium dioxide between 1981 and 1982 without notifying the IAEA.

* There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium ( HEU ) and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ).

The IAEA and its former Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded on October 7, 2005.

* 1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* U. N. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reiterates a statement he made on March 31 that only the UN IAEA has a mandate to search out and destroy any nuclear weapons or parts of a nuclear weapons program found in Iraq.

The next day, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced the UN's confirmation that the reactor had been shut down.

The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) later stated that it contained approximately of strontium, equivalent to the amount of radiation released immediately after the Chernobyl accident ( though the total radiation release from Chernobyl was 2500 times greater at around ).

In his Introductory Statement to the IAEA Board of Governors on 2008-03-03, the Director General stated that he could not provide an update on the disabling of the facilities, as it was not undertaken by the IAEA.

The Middle East department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) in the United Kingdom stated in early 2006 that it is widely understood that “ Iran ’ s program, which was kept secret from the IAEA for 18 years, became public knowledge largely because of revelations of the NCRI, and this led to heightened international concern .” At the same time Michael Axworthy, former head of the Iran section at the FCO, claimed that the NCRI is a " tightly disciplined front-organization for the MEK and deemed them unreliable.