IAEA board passes resolution reporting Iran to UN Security Council

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation board of governors has passed a resolution reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years

for breaching its non-proliferation obligations, diplomats said on Wednesday.



The resolution follows a previous one passed on June 12 last year — the day before Israel started bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, soon followed by the United States — that found Iran in "non-compliance" with those obligations. Reporting it to the council for that breach required another resolution.



While the Security Council is unlikely to take concrete action against Iran since its allies Russia and China are permanent, veto-wielding members, the move is an escalation in a diplomatic standoff between Iran and Western powers.