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Lawmaker Blasts IAEA Chief's Remarks on Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian lawmaker said the recent statement made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Yukiya Amano on Iran is a source of disrepute for the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks after Amano said in his introductory statement at a meeting of the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna on Monday that 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".
Boroujerdi said the political approach that the IAEA director has adopted towards Iran's nuclear program has diminished the status of this important international organization.
Amano's remarks are politicized and lack legal weight, Boroujerdi said, and added, "Iran should give a serious response to Amano's remarks."
"More than 100 member states of the agency have confirmed Iran's cooperation with this organization, and this indicates that it (the IAEA) has become a tool in the hands of certain states," the lawmaker stressed.
Meantime, Iran's residing representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh also asked Amano to drop political allegations against Iran's nuclear program and deal with Tehran's dossier from technical and legal perspectives.
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.
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.
Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the NPT would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran.
Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the Southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr.
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.
Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks after Amano said in his introductory statement at a meeting of the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna on Monday that 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".
Boroujerdi said the political approach that the IAEA director has adopted towards Iran's nuclear program has diminished the status of this important international organization.
Amano's remarks are politicized and lack legal weight, Boroujerdi said, and added, "Iran should give a serious response to Amano's remarks."
"More than 100 member states of the agency have confirmed Iran's cooperation with this organization, and this indicates that it (the IAEA) has become a tool in the hands of certain states," the lawmaker stressed.
Meantime, Iran's residing representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh also asked Amano to drop political allegations against Iran's nuclear program and deal with Tehran's dossier from technical and legal perspectives.
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.
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.
Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the NPT would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran.
Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the Southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr.
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.
