Iran passes the law canceling IAEA cooperation, demonstrating tensions and expressing concern about international law, ethics, and legal services in the nuclear surveillance sector.

Iran has implemented a new law to freeze its stand with the UN nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after it was allowed by the Constitutional Council. According to Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the legislation, which had already been sent to the government, mirrors the Iranian position in the face of growing tensions in the region.

The bill, which passed by 221 votes (one vote was abstained), was proposed as a part of a greater legal reaction of Iran to recent military escalations between Israel and the United States. Ghalibaf also accused the IAEA of moral wrongdoing as it was acting in the interest of Israel and not guaranteeing the safety of the nuclear installations in Iran.

This bill highlights how the law, ethics, and legal services sectors overlap in the Iran nuclear policy under debate. It is also an indication of a major change in the Iranian policy toward global non-proliferation, which worries the international nuclear watchdog.

The drafting and passing of the bill conducted as legal services highlight the fact that Iran does not want to continue having an international influence over its nuclear program hence wanting to exercise a sovereignty claim over it. As analysts follow the move, they identify that the move is consistent with the priorities of national defense although it might raise some extra calls by the international groups regarding the issue of legality and ethics.

The legislation comes after weeks of dispute in which Israel bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, the U.S. retaliated and Iran countered with missiles. A truce between Iran and Israel started on Tuesday after 12 days of conflicts.