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Wed, 06/08/2011 - 10:24
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Envoy Asks IAEA to Stop Politicizing Iran's N. Case
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's residing representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency asked the UN nuclear chief, Yukiya Amano, to drop political allegations against Iran's nuclear program and deal with Tehran's dossier from technical and legal perspectives.
The remarks by Iran's IAEA Envoy Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh came in response to the allegations made by Amano on Monday.
The IAEA has received "further information related to possible past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities that seem to point to the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program", Amano said in his introductory statement at a meeting of the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna on Monday.
Soltaniyeh strongly rejected Amano's remarks, saying that there is no substance to the information that has been provided to the agency.
Soltaniyeh underlined that the IAEA report suffers a lack of transparency, and reiterated that Amano should study the evidence that is provided by reliable sources and should make sure that it is solid.
Elsewhere, Soltaniyeh in an interview with the Islamic republic news agency on Monday advised the IAEA chief to abide by his commitments to Tehran so that Iran's nuclear dossier can be declared closed.
Now the ball is in the agency's court, and the IAEA director is obliged to implement what has been stipulated by the modality plan, Soltaniyeh added.
However certain countries, such as the United States, Japan, France, and Britain, are opposed to the modality plan and are making efforts to thwart the implementation of the agreement, he stated.
Soltaniyeh also said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stated that it is opposed to the development of nuclear weapons and that its nuclear activities are meant for peaceful purposes and are being conducted under the supervision of the IAEA.
Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.
Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
The remarks by Iran's IAEA Envoy Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh came in response to the allegations made by Amano on Monday.
The IAEA has received "further information related to possible past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities that seem to point to the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program", Amano said in his introductory statement at a meeting of the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna on Monday.
Soltaniyeh strongly rejected Amano's remarks, saying that there is no substance to the information that has been provided to the agency.
Soltaniyeh underlined that the IAEA report suffers a lack of transparency, and reiterated that Amano should study the evidence that is provided by reliable sources and should make sure that it is solid.
Elsewhere, Soltaniyeh in an interview with the Islamic republic news agency on Monday advised the IAEA chief to abide by his commitments to Tehran so that Iran's nuclear dossier can be declared closed.
Now the ball is in the agency's court, and the IAEA director is obliged to implement what has been stipulated by the modality plan, Soltaniyeh added.
However certain countries, such as the United States, Japan, France, and Britain, are opposed to the modality plan and are making efforts to thwart the implementation of the agreement, he stated.
Soltaniyeh also said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stated that it is opposed to the development of nuclear weapons and that its nuclear activities are meant for peaceful purposes and are being conducted under the supervision of the IAEA.
Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.
Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
