UPDATE 1337 GMT:

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian has responding to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s resolution:

I don’t know how to cooperate with the outside world to stop them from doing evil acts and let the people live independently in this country.

We will continue down our own path; we will have enrichment.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: For the first time in 20 years, the International Atomic Energy Agency has found Iran in breach of its obligations over its nuclear program.

The IAEA Board of Governors voted 19-3, with 11 abstentions and 2 members not voting, in favor of the resolution tabled by the US, France, Germany, and the UK. Russia, China and Burkina Faso were the countries in opposition.

The resolution declared:

Iran’s many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran…constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement.

Tehran has threatened a response if the resolution passed. A “senior Iranian official” assured Reuters that the Islamic Republic will not abandon its right to uranium enrichment because of increasing tensions to “influence Tehran to change its position about its nuclear rights”.

The sixth set of talks between Iran and the Trump Administration is scheduled for Sunday in Oman.

Iranian officials declared that they will “build a new enrichment center in a secure location”, adding to the facilities at Natanz and Fordoo.

The new site will replace the first-generation enrichment machines at Fordoo with advanced sixth-generation centrifuges, they pledged.

Concern Over Israel Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

However, amid concerns over a possible Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, the US State Department ordered the departure of all non-essential personnel from the US Embassy in Baghdad, and authorized the departure of non-essential personnel and family members from Bahrain and Kuwait. The US Embassy in Israel has issued a security alert restricting US government staff and their families from traveling outside of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be’er Sheva until further notice.

US officials told the broadcaster CBS that Israel is “fully ready” to launch an attack on Iran and that Washington “anticipates Iran could retaliate on certain American sites in neighboring Iraq”.

Donald Trump said personnel are being moved out “because it could be a dangerous place, and we’ll see what happens. But they have been or we’ve given notice to move out, and we’ll see what happens.”

A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “The safety of our staff is clearly our top priority so we are monitoring the situation closely but I don’t have an update…in terms of any partial evacuation or otherwise of our own embassies.”

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Hossein Salami proclaimed that retaliation to any Israeli attack be “more forceful and destructive” than in past conflicts.

Israel and Iran exchanged missile strikes in the spring and autumn last year.

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A “senior Iranian security official” told State English-language outlet Press TV, “Iran is currently at its highest level of military readiness, and if the United States or the Zionist regime attempts any act of aggression, they will be caught by surprise.”

He maintained, “Iran is now capable of catching its enemies by surprise by launching deadly preemptive strikes before any hostile movement on their part.”