Vienna, June 23 -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on Monday cautioned that the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict risks collapsing the global nuclear non-proliferation regime and stressed the need for diplomacy to resolve the crisis.
''The weight of this conflict risks collapsing the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. But there is still a path for diplomacy. We must take it. Otherwise violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels and the global non-proliferation regime that has underpinned international security for more than half a century, could crumble and fall,'' the IAEA DG said in his statement to the Board of Governors of the IAEA.
The DG had announced on Sunday that an...