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An-Nahar: the file goes to the Security Council. Shargh: an "anti-Iranian resolution"

Two reports, one vote at the atomic agency. Only one says what the board found — and the inspector it quotes says he cannot see inside the mountain.

No photograph was published with any report we hold on this story.
No photograph was published with any report we hold on this story. The mark is An-Nahar’s.

The vote. An-Nahar reports that the IAEA Board of Governors referred Iran's nuclear file to the Security Council over Tehran's non-compliance. Shargh, carrying Pakistan's foreign ministry, calls the same vote an "anti-Iranian resolution" in its own voice and does not say what the board found. Its one voice says Iran has a legitimate right to peaceful nuclear energy.

Where they differ

An-Nahar Shargh
What the vote was referral to the Security Council over non-compliance "anti-Iranian resolution"
Who speaks Rafael Grossi, Donald Trump, an Iranian diplomatic note Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesperson
The fortified tunnels movement on satellite images, "no concrete information" about what is inside not mentioned
The enriched-uranium stock not verified or located since June 2025 not mentioned
Who struck the nuclear sites Israel and the United States, named not mentioned

The threat. An-Nahar reports Trump telling a Republican rally that the United States had detected activity at the site, warning Iran against continuing there and threatening to strike it hard. No reply from Tehran appears in the same passage.

Not settled. Nobody says what is inside Pickaxe Mountain. Iran's own account of the tunnels, and of where its enriched uranium now sits, is in neither report. Neither quotes anyone at the Security Council the file has just been sent to, and neither gives the board's vote count.

What this is about. The UN's nuclear watchdog has sent Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the one body that can impose binding sanctions.

How it got here

  • 1970. Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The treaty lets members use nuclear power for peaceful purposes. In return, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) check that no material is diverted to weapons.
  • 2006. The IAEA's Board of Governors first reported Iran to the Security Council. UN sanctions followed.
  • 2015. Iran signed a deal with world powers. It limited uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief.
  • 2018. President Donald Trump took the United States out of the deal. Iran later enriched beyond the deal's limits.
  • June 2025. Israel and the United States struck Iran's main nuclear sites. An-Nahar reports that inspectors have not verified or located Iran's near-weapons-grade uranium stock since then.
  • Since then. Our earlier coverage has followed fighting between Iran and the United States, including in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea lane out of the Gulf.

Who is involved, and why

  • Iran says its programme is peaceful. It warns that IAEA decisions could be used to justify new attacks.
  • The United States and Israel want Iran to dismantle its centrifuges and stop enriching.
  • The United States and three European countries put forward the resolution, according to Shargh.
  • The IAEA inspects, but cannot enter the tunnels at Pickaxe Mountain, near the Natanz enrichment site.
  • Pakistan, Iran's neighbour, backs Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy.

What is at stake. A referral can lead to Security Council action, including sanctions. The United States, Russia and China each hold a veto there. The other risk is military: Trump has threatened to strike the site hard.

Where it stands. The file is at the Security Council. Neither report says what the Council will do, or when. What is inside the mountain, and where Iran's uranium is, remains unknown.

What is being argued about

  • Whether the board's decision was a referral over non-compliance or a political resolution
  • What the inspectors can and cannot see at the fortified Pickaxe Mountain site
  • Iran's near-weapons-grade uranium stock, unverified since June 2025
  • An American threat to strike the site, carried without an Iranian reply
One vote, two descriptionsSide by side
outletwhat it called the votewho it quotesattributed?
An-Naharthe board referred Iran's nuclear file to the Security Council over non-compliance with requirements on its nuclear activitiesRafael Grossi to Bloomberg; Donald Trump at a Republican rally; an Iranian diplomatic note warning against the agency being used as a political or military toolyes — the decision is described as the board's, and each position is named as someone's
Sharghan "anti-Iranian resolution" at the atomic agencyPakistan's foreign ministry spokespersonno — the label is in the report's own voice; what the board found is not given
Both reports were published on 10 September 2026, six minutes apart. Neither carries the board's vote count.
Sources An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
What is dated, and by whomTimeline
  1. 2025-06— no time published Israel and the United States struck major Iranian nuclear facilities; from this month inspectors could no longer verify or locate Iran's stock of uranium enriched to near weapons-gradeAn-Nahar alone — no other report we hold on this event mentions the stockpile
  2. 2026-09-10— no time published Rafael Grossi, IAEA tells Bloomberg satellite images show movement around the fortified Pickaxe Mountain site, and that the agency has no concrete information about activity inside the tunnel complex; inspectors have not been able to enterAn-Nahar alone — no other report we hold on this event mentions the site
  3. 2026-09-10— no time published Donald Trump tells a Republican rally the United States detected some activity at the site, warns Iran against continuing work there and threatens to strike it hardAn-Nahar alone; no Iranian reply appears in the same passage
  4. 2026-09-10— no time published the IAEA Board of Governors referred Iran's nuclear file to the Security Council over non-complianceone clause in one report; the other confirms a resolution passed but not that the file moved
  5. 2026-09-1014:11 published time on the report An-Nahar publishes the inspectors' account, the referral, the earlier strikes and the American threat
  6. 2026-09-1014:17 published time on the report Shargh publishes Pakistan's foreign ministry on Iran's legitimate right to peaceful nuclear energy, calling the vote an anti-Iranian resolution
Each row rests on a single report; the row says which account carries it.
Sources An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

The inspectors say they cannot see inside

The fuller of the two reports leads with what is not known — movement around the fortified mountain site, no access to the tunnels, and no verification of the enriched-uranium stock since June 2025 — and names both states that struck the nuclear sites earlier. It puts the two demands in a single hedged sentence. The other report we hold carries only a third government's spokesperson and calls the resolution anti-Iran in its own voice.

2 reports we hold on the referral 1 quoting the inspectors 1 naming the states that struck the nuclear sites 1 carrying both demands in one sentence
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

unverified The IAEA Board of Governors has referred Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council over non-compliance.
An-Nahar is the only report we hold that states the referral. Shargh confirms that the agency passed a resolution against Iran, since Pakistan's foreign ministry is reacting to one, but it does not say the file went to the Security Council.
Checked against 2 sources:
An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified IAEA inspectors have not entered the fortified Mount Kolang Gaz La tunnel complex and cannot say what is happening inside it.
An-Nahar alone carries this, quoting Rafael Grossi's interview with Bloomberg saying satellite images show movement around the site but the agency has no concrete information about activity within. No second report we hold on this event mentions the site at all.
Checked against 1 source:
An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified Inspectors have been unable to verify or locate Iran's stock of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium since June 2025.
Only An-Nahar carries the date and the gap, tying it to the Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Nothing else we hold on this event addresses the stockpile, and no Iranian account of where it is appears in any of these reports.
Checked against 1 source:
An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
— independent
The only report we hold that answers back, and it is a third country doing it: Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesperson says Iran, as an NPT member, has a legitimate right to develop peaceful nuclear energy. It labels
جهان ۱۹ شهریور ۱۴۰۵ ۱۷:۴۷ پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد در حال حاضر تصمیمی برای الحاق عضو جدیدی به «توافق مکه» گرفته نشده سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه پاکستان در واکنش به تصویب قطعنامه ضدایرانی در آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی گفت که جمهوری اسلامی ایران به عنوان عضو ان.پی.تی از حق توسعه برنامه‌های صلح آمیز هسته‌ای برخوردار است. به گزارش گروه رسانه‌ای شرق، سجاد حیدر امروز در نشست خبری هفتگی خود در اسلام‌آباد درباره قطعنامه ضد ایرانی آمریکا و ۳ کشور اروپایی در آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی گفت: پاکستان معتقد است که ایران به عنوان امضا کننده پیمان ان.پی.تی از حق توسعه
The resolution labelled in the reporting voice: called anti-Iran flat, with no attribution for the label — “در واکنش به تصویب قطعنامه ضدایرانی در آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی”
One voice only: the whole report is a third government's spokesperson on Iran's rights; no inspector and no complainant state appears — “سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه پاکستان”
The report's own label for the vote: calls the board's resolution anti-Iranian in the report's own voice, without saying what the board found — “سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه پاکستان در واکنش به تصویب قطعنامه ضدایرانی در آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی گفت”
Single voice: one friendly foreign ministry states the legal right; no inspector, no complainant and no vote count appears — “پاکستان: ایران برای استفاده از انرژی صلح‌آمیز هسته‌ای حق مشروع دارد”
Read it at Shargh → https://www.sharghdaily.com/fa/tiny/news-1127022
An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent تحركات جديدة في موقع "جبل الفأس" في إيران... غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at An-Nahar → What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
— independent
The only report we hold that says the file went to the Security Council, and the only one carrying Grossi's own words: satellite images show movement around the construction site, the agency has "no concrete
كشف المدير العام للوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية رافاييل غروسي أن صور الأقمار الاصطناعية أظهرت تحركات جديدة حول موقع جبل الفأس الإيراني المحصّن تحت الأرض، مؤكداً أن الوكالة لا تزال عاجزة عن معرفة طبيعة الأنشطة الجارية داخل مجمع الأنفاق.وقال غروسي في مقابلة مع بلومبرغ: هناك بعض المؤشرات إلى وجود تحركات حول موقع البناء، مستدركاً بأن الوكالة لا تملك معلومات ملموسة عن الأنشطة التي قد تكون جارية هناك.ولم يتمكن مفتشو الوكالة حتى الآن من دخول المجمع، ما يحول دون التحقق مباشرة من الغرض منه أو طبيعة العمليات الجارية داخله.ترامب يحذّر إيرانتزامن إعلان غروسي مع تحذير جديد وجّهه الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب
The gap put in the headline: leads with what the inspectors cannot see rather than with what the satellites show — “غروسي: لا نعرف ما يجري داخله”
Both demands stated in one sentence: dismantlement on one side and peaceful purposes on the other, hedged the same way — “وتطالب الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل إيران بتفكيك برنامجها لأجهزة الطرد المركزي ووقف تخصيب اليورانيوم، فيما تؤكد طهران أن برنامجها مخصّص للأغراض السلمية.”
Who is named as having attacked: the earlier strikes on the nuclear sites are attributed to both states by name, not left no actor named — “بعد الهجمات الإسرائيلية والأميركية على منشآت نووية إيرانية رئيسية”
A threat carried in reported speech: the threat to strike hard is reported as said at a rally, not as a policy — “محذّراً إيران من مواصلة العمل فيه ومهدداً بضربه بقوة”
Names the gap: states in the same breath what the satellite images show and what the inspectors still cannot establish — “مؤكداً أن الوكالة لا تزال عاجزة عن معرفة طبيعة الأنشطة الجارية داخل مجمع الأنفاق”
Hedged symmetrically: the demands of two states and the answer of a third are each attributed, in one sentence, with the same verb weight — “وتطالب الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل إيران بتفكيك برنامجها لأجهزة الطرد المركزي ووقف تخصيب اليورانيوم، فيما تؤكد طهران أن برنامجها مخصّص للأغراض السلمية.”
Attacker unnamed on first mention: the damage to the enrichment site appears with no actor early on; the two states are named only lower down — “قرب منشأة نطنز التي تعرضت لأضرار كبيرة في هجمات سابقة، وفق وكالة رويترز”
A threat carried without a reply: the threat to strike the site hard is reported flat, with no response from the government threatened in the same passage — “وقال ترامب خلال تجمع جمهوري إن الولايات المتحدة رصدت بعض النشاط في الموقع، محذّراً إيران من مواصلة العمل فيه ومهدداً بضربه بقوة.”
Read it at An-Nahar → https://www.annahar.com/international/iran/346084/تحركات-جديدة-في-موقع-…
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