New Delhi, June 9 -- The resolution moving through Vienna this week asks the world to hold Iran accountable for a year of locked doors at its nuclear sites. What it does not ask, Iranian officials were quick to point out, is who bombed those doors shut.

any mention of the American and Israeli strikes that hit the very facilities now beyond the inspectors' reach.

That omission is the whole argument, as Tehran tells it. The agency exists to safeguard nuclear material and the sites that hold it. Yet the draft treats the loss of oversight as Iran's offense alone, while passing over the act that produced it. For a government that has spent the past year describing the attacks on its nuclear installations as illegal, the silence reads less li...