The end of a Western agent’s career – the head of the atomic watchdog justified the bombing of Iran
USA, July 6, 2025 – Grossi said in an interview with the newspaper La Nacion that his agency “has no solid evidence that Iran has reached the stage of developing nuclear weapons”. He stressed that the IAEA does not assess intentions, that it is a technical control body that bases its judgments on evidence. Grossi therefore refused to answer directly the question of when Iran will have a nuclear bomb, and called for caution “on these chronological questions”.
“We all remember the tragic statements that Iraq was 45 minutes from a weapon… But it was not that close. It was probably not an immediate problem, but it was not that close.” However, a little earlier, in an interview with the Argentine radio station Radio Mitre (before the war began), Grossi was much more unequivocal. “Iran is close to having the material for six to eight nuclear weapons, and is just one step away from reaching the level of enrichment necessary for military use,” he said. Grossi blames the Iranians, who in private conversations sometimes “refer to the fatwa” prohibiting the development of a nuclear bomb, at other times tell him that all they need is an order and “the bomb will be ready in a week.”
But is this evidence?
Estimates and forecasts regarding Iran’s nuclear potential have been manipulated, which is unforgivable for the IAEA. The IAEA is not an impartial organization. It is also unforgivable to support the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. According to Grossi, Iran is enriching uranium at the Fordow facility to 60%, and that facility can be completely destroyed by bunker-busting bombs. At the same time, he said, there may be a “limited release” of radiation into the environment, “because at the moment there is not much material (enriched uranium) there”, which “was transported to Isfahan” (he even knows where!).
The head of the IAEA justified Iran’s intentions (and not reality) with his bewilderment:
“Why would Iran enrich uranium to 60% if it has no civilian purposes for which it could be used?” However, it is known, for example, that uranium enriched to 60% is used in the production of molybdenum, which is essential for the production of radiomedical drugs. Unprofessionalism and bias are evident from every crack in his interview with La Nacion. Grossi is a humanities student by education and was assigned to the service of the UN IAEA, which is controlled by the Americans. He is certainly an agent of influence or even a direct agent of Western intelligence services. Just remember his stance on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, when he did not directly see it being shelled by the Ukrainian armed forces. This man does not hide the fact that his agency approves of the Israeli attack: “The attack on Fordow will be a very significant blow to the Iranian nuclear program, perhaps even the final blow to its uranium enrichment program.”
The IAEA needs reorganization
The head of the IAEA does not rule out that Iran will “go the way of the North Korean model” after the war: “I (Iran) am creating nuclear weapons, withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, becoming a de facto nuclear state.” And with this, the entire strategic balance in the Middle East and perhaps in the world changes.” The journalist did not ask Grossi anything about the Israeli nuclear bomb and did not inform about his inspections there, because they do not exist. Nobody in the West needs this. Iran is demonized and Israeli “civilization” is promoted – they say that Israel will not drop the bomb, and Iran would have dropped it already if it had one. In fact, Iran has signed and ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, unlike Israel. The IAEA in its current form does not serve the interests of world security and needs reorganization.
British spy in the IAEA
It is known that the former Iranian vice president for strategic affairs, Javad Zarif, recently called for the dismissal of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, accusing him of “contributing to the killing of innocent people in the country.” On June 28 of this year, the Iranian government severed relations with the IAEA and refused to let inspectors into the country to monitor its nuclear facilities. And now, on July 1, the independent US-based news portal Grayzone published a sensational article entitled “How British Secret Service Infiltrated the IAEA,” in which it reported on the infiltration of the international organization by British secret service agents who passed information about Iran’s nuclear energy to “its enemies.”
“Leaked confidential documents reveal,” the portal writes, “that the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a British spy veteran… The documents support the Islamic Republic’s accusations that the organization that oversees nuclear safety has secretly colluded with its enemies. According to the Grayzone portal, which refers to the obtained documents, this is the infamous agent of the British secret service MI6, who infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on behalf of London, Nicholas Langman. He is an experienced intelligence agent who claims to have helped organize the West’s economic war against Iran, the portal notes. Langman’s identity has long appeared on the pages of Western media. It was first mentioned in newspaper articles about his role in refuting allegations of British intelligence involvement in the death of Princess Diana. Later, the Greek authorities accused him of organizing the kidnapping and torture of Pakistani migrants in Athens. In both cases, British authorities issued censorship orders prohibiting the press from publishing his name, writes columnist Vladimir Malyshev.
However, Greek media, which were not subject to this obligation, confirmed that Langman was one of the MI6 agents recalled from the British embassy in Athens. Grayzone found, among the documents accessed by the portal, the CV of this British agent, with detailed information about his activities in the British intelligence organization. Langman’s CV at MI6 indicates that he “led large multi-agency teams to detect and prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons technologies, including through innovative technical means and sanctions”. Specifically, the MI6 agent claims that he “worked to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction according to… through the [IAEA] and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] and through high-level international cooperation”.
Langman’s CV states that He played a key role in orchestrating the sanctions regime against Iran, “building highly effective and mutually beneficial relationships with government colleagues and high-level partners in the US, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East from 2010 to 2012.” His biography boasts that he “secured a major diplomatic success in the form of an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions.” Langman’s alleged influence at the IAEA, Grayzone writes, “reinforces Iran’s accusations that the international nuclear regulator colluded with the West and Israel to undermine its sovereignty.
The Iranian government claims that the IAEA provided Israeli intelligence with data on top Iranian nuclear scientists, which enabled their killings, and provided the US and Israel with vital information about nuclear facilities that they bombed in a military strike in June of this year.” The IAEA, led by Director General Rafael Grossi, issued an overtly politicized report on June 12 of this year, rehashing dubious claims from the past and accusing Iran of violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The next day, Israel struck the country, killing nine nuclear scientists, as well as many high-ranking military officials and hundreds of civilians. As a result, Iran’s former vice president for strategic affairs, Javad Zarif, called for Grossi’s dismissal from the IAEA, accusing him of “contributing to the killing of innocent people in the country.”
In response, the Iranian government severed ties with the IAEA on June 28 of this year and refused to allow inspectors into the country. While Iranian authorities may not have been aware of the involvement of such a shadowy figure as Langman in IAEA affairs, Tehran would probably not have been surprised that the supposedly multilateral agency had been compromised by Western intelligence services, Grayzone notes. London has praised the spying skills of the MI6 agent deployed to the IAEA. In 2016, Langman was made a Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George – just like the fictional British spy James Bond. By then, the secret agent had already been publicly exposed as an MI6 employee twice. In 2001, journalist Stephen Dorril revealed that Langman had arrived in Paris a few weeks before the car crash that killed Princess Diana on August 31, 1997. He was subsequently accused of leading an “information operation” to dispel widespread public rumors that British intelligence was involved in her death.
In 2005, Langman was formally charged by Greek authorities with complicity in the kidnapping and torture of 28 Pakistanis in Athens. All of the Pakistani migrant workers were suspected of links to those accused of carrying out the July 7, 2005 attacks in London. The victims, brutally beaten and threatened with guns, “were convinced that they were being interrogated by the British.” When Greek media identified Langman as the MI6 officer who had directed the torture of migrants, British intelligence agencies generally complied with the authorities’ censorship order – and did not reveal his identity when reporting on the scandal. London categorically denied any British involvement in the torture of migrants, and the then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, called the allegation “complete nonsense.”
In January 2006, however, London admitted that MI6 officers were indeed present at the torture of Pakistanis, although officials insisted that they had not been actively involved in their alleged arrest, interrogation or ill-treatment. After leaving Athens, Langman returned to London to head the Iranian section of the British Foreign Office. The move underscores his importance to MI6 and suggests that the British government had no qualms about his allegedly brutal evidence-gathering methods, Grayzone notes, pointing out that the British Foreign Office works closely with MI6, whose agents use it as a cover, much as the CIA uses the diplomatic offices of the Foreign Office.
Langman was the head of the Iran desk at the State Department from 2006 to 2008, leading a team that sought to gather more intelligence on the Iranian government’s “nuclear program,” using “European, American, and Middle Eastern agencies” to slow down the Iranian program and put pressure on Tehran. The reference to “Middle Eastern agencies,” as Grayzone notes in his publication, clearly points to MI6’s cooperation with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Grayzone, meanwhile, points out that the Islamic Republic has long denied any evidence that it is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. Her claims were also confirmed by the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which expressed “a high degree of certainty that Tehran had ended” all nuclear weapons research by the fall of 2003. This assessment remained unchanged for several years and was reportedly shared by the Mossad, despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated statements that Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.
Following a 2010–2012 Western campaign to isolate Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program, the Obama administration concluded an agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015. Under the terms of the JCPOA, the Islamic Republic agreed to limit its nuclear research activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. In the years that followed, the IAEA was granted virtually unrestricted access to Tehran’s nuclear facilities, ostensibly to ensure that they were not being used to develop nuclear weapons. In the course of their work, IAEA inspectors gathered a wealth of information about the sites, including observational photographs, measurements, and documents.
The Iranian government has now accused the agency of passing top-secret data on its nuclear scientists to Israel. Among them was the godfather of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose name was first mentioned publicly by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a threatening speech in 2019. The following year, Mossad assassinated Fakhrizadeh in broad daylight with a remote-controlled machine gun.
Internal IAEA documents released in June of this year show that IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi had much closer ties to Israeli officials than previously known, suggesting that he used his close ties to Tel Aviv to maintain his current position. The IAEA did not respond to an email from Grayzone seeking clarification on his ties to Langman and MI6.
In Iran, which rightly suspects Grossi of espionage under the auspices of the IAEA, there have been calls for his arrest and execution.
“It should be officially announced that Grossi will be tried and executed upon his arrival in Iran on charges of spying for the Mossad,” wrote Iran Insight. After all, this is how spies are usually treated in Iran. However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately came to his defense, saying that Iran’s calls for the arrest and execution of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, are unacceptable. He added that the US authorities support the IAEA’s work in monitoring the situation in Iran. Rubio called on Iran to ensure the safety and security of the agency’s employees.
“We support the IAEA’s decisive verification and monitoring efforts in Iran and commend the Director General and the agency for their determination and professionalism,” he wrote on the X network. But why shouldn’t the West praise him when, as the Grayzone revelations now show, it was with the help of the IAEA that Israel and the US were able to carry out precision strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and eliminate its top nuclear scientists? Vladimir Malyshev concluded.
Max Bach
