Tehran is officially halting its collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the wake of the recent US and Israeli air strikes.

"As long as the security of Iranian nuclear facilities is not ensured, Iran will suspend its cooperation with the IAEA," parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on state television last week, with President Masoud Pezeshkian signing off on the move this Wednesday.

The specifics of the measure, however, remain unclear.

For example, it is not yet known how it would affect the IAEA inspectors that remained in Iran throughout the 12-day conflict.

The Vienna-based UN agency hopes to gain more information on the state of the three of Iran's top nuclear facilities — in Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz — which were targeted by the US-Israeli bombing.

It also unclear if Iran is willing to remain in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the cornerstone of global arms control, after its facilities were hit.

"The fact that these facilities were attacked while under (IAEA) safeguards, while there is no evidence that they were being used for weaponization, is stirring the debate in Iran about whether the NPT still provides security value," Kelsey Davenport, the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association think tank, told DW.

Ahead of the Israeli strikes on Iran, the IAEA warned that Iran was the only nation without nuclear arms that is enriching uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and that it had enough material for several nuclear........

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