VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The UN atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday demanded that Iran fully cooperate with the agency, provide complete information about its stockpile of near weapons-grade nuclear material, and grant its inspectors access to Iranian nuclear sites.

A resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board also said that giving information and access are “essential and urgent” in order to enable verification that there’s no “diversion of nuclear material.”

Twenty-one countries on the IAEA’s 35-member board of governors voted for the resolution at IAEA headquarters in Vienna, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the outcome of the closed-door vote.

Russia, China and Niger opposed it, while 10 countries abstained, and one didn’t vote as it was in arrears.

The resolution was put forward by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

A senior Western diplomat, who wasn’t authorized to speak about the sensitive matter and so requested anonymity, said that the resolution “aims to keep diplomatic pressure on Iran to come into compliance with its legal safeguards obligations.”

The resolution comes at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East, with the US having launched airstrikes early Wednesday against Iran after US President Donald Trump said Iran had downed a US Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran claiming to fire back at US targets in the region.

The escalating attacks threatened to derail efforts to end the war, as US President Donald Trump warned that the Iranian government would “pay the price” for stalled peace negotiations.

Since Israel and the United States struck Iran’s nuclear sites during the 12-day war in June 2025,........

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