VIENNA, March 2, 2026 (Net) – Delegates at the United Nations’ nuclear agency began meeting on Monday for an extraordinary session on Iran in the wake of the US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic repub-lic.
Russia, a key ally of Tehran, requested the meeting on Saturday at the Vienna-based International Atom-ic Energy Agency (IAEA), following the same request by Iran.
The extraordinary meeting precedes an already scheduled regular session of the IAEA’s board of gover-nors, which represents 35 countries.
Following the strikes, the IAEA — which monitors Iran’s nuclear programme — said on Saturday that it was “closely monitoring developments in the Middle East, and urges restraint to avoid any nuclear safety risks to people in the region”.
