{"id":38501,"date":"2026-09-15T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-wins-iaea-general-committee-seat-despite-us-opposition\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:24:02","slug":"iran-wins-iaea-general-committee-seat-despite-us-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-wins-iaea-general-committee-seat-despite-us-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran wins IAEA General Committee seat despite US opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6174942.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>In a post on its X account on Tuesday, the Iranian mission said IAEA member states had voted in favor of Iran\u2019s membership, describing the outcome as a rejection of attempts to use unilateral pressure to influence the agency\u2019s collective decisions, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite US efforts to obstruct Iran\u2019s participation in the General Committee, IAEA Member States made their choice: they voted in favor of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), also said the United States had made extensive efforts in recent days to prevent Iran from joining the committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kamalvandi, those efforts ultimately failed and the issue was put to a vote.<\/p>\n<p>He said the United States was defeated by a wide margin in the vote compared with the support Iran received.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian mission said the result was a sign that the international community would not allow unilateral pressure to determine collective decisions within the IAEA.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247790\/Iran-wins-IAEA-General-Committee-seat-despite-US-opposition\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on its X account on Tuesday, the Iranian mission said IAEA member states had voted in favor of Iran\u2019s membership, describing the outcome as a rejection of attempts to use unilateral pressure to influence the agency\u2019s collective decisions, Press TV reported. \u201cDespite US efforts to obstruct Iran\u2019s participation in the General Committee, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}