VIENNA, June 9 -- The demand, as Iran's diplomats in Vienna framed it Tuesday, was self-canceling: the United States had drafted a resolution calling on Iran to account for nuclear material at facilities that American bombs destroyed. Tehran's mission at the International Atomic Energy Agency did not merely object. It called the exercise ridiculous.

Iran's Permanent Mission in Vienna posted its response publicly on X as the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors convened its quarterly session, a meeting that has acquired a peculiar charge this week given that Washington and Tehran are simultaneously engaged in ceasefire extension talks that could eventually fold in the nuclear file. The mission's statement accused the United States of shedd...