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Iran's permanent mission to international organizations in Vienna accused IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on Monday of applying a double standard to attacks on nuclear facilities. In a statement posted on its X account, the mission said Grossi used the phrase "STRONGLY CONDEMNS" after a staff member was killed at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but did not show the same resolve when Iranian nuclear sites and personnel were targeted. It said that when US and Israeli forces bombed Iran's nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards, an attack it called unprecedented in the Agency's history, and when Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated, Grossi refrained from condemnation. The mission said Grossi apparently considered condemnation to fall outside his mandate in those cases, and it argued that institutional responsibilities cannot be applied selectively. Tehran Times reported the criticism, and the report did not describe any IAEA reply.