DISINFO: The IAEA will work for its main sponsor: the United States
SUMMARY
At the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, one of the priorities of the IAEA experts will be to deny Russia access to American nuclear fuel, even though Russia has no interest in seeing it anyway. The Americans are afraid that Russian's could find faults in American fuel. And since the Americans are the main sponsors of the IAEA, the agency's observers will make sure the Russian observers have no access.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin claim attempting to discredit independent international organisations, especially those who monitor the implementation and respect of international treaties and instruments such as the OSCE, the OPCW, and now the IAEA.
The claim seeks to divert attention away from the real problem: Russia's illegal overtake of the nuclear power station claiming it as property of the Russian state.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an independent organisation of the UN family and includes 175 member states. Russia itself is a founding member of the IAEA as well as one of the earliest ratifiers of its Statute, and remains a member state to this day.
See similar cases that the IAEA is playing on the side of the West and Ukraine, the IAEA president is a product of the collective West, and that the IAEA delegation will pass on intelligence to Ukrainian army. See also our report on pro-Kremlin disinformation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.