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188098
Mon, 06/13/2011 - 09:03
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Envoy: US Undermining IAEA Independence
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency cautioned that the US is seeking to undermine IAEA's independence in a bid to attain its goals.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the second international conference on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in Tehran on Sunday, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh said Washington is making its utmost efforts to make the IAEA lose its independency and become a subsidiary of the UN Security Council.
"In this way Washington can manipulate the IAEA's decisions, but we will not allow this" to happen, he added.
Soltaniyeh further reminded Washington's direct role in derailing IAEA investigations into Iran's nuclear case, and said the US coaxed the world nuclear watchdog agency into referring Tehran's dossier to the UN Security Council.
"A country's nuclear dossier should be referred to the Security Council should the IAEA proves the country's nuclear activities are for military purposes, but Iran's nuclear activities are strictly peaceful," he continued.
Soltaniyeh pointed out that a country's nuclear dossier should be referred to the Security Council if the IAEA announces that it cannot inspect and examine that country's nuclear activities like what happened in North Korea.
"But, Iran is still cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog body," he reminded.
"IAEA inspectors should prove that a country does not abide by the Non-Proliferation Treaty rules and then the agency refers the issue to the Security Council but there has been no such a report about Iran," he noted.
The diplomat went on to say that, in fact, the issue of non-compliance pertains to the countries which receive nuclear materials from the agency but Iran has never received any nuclear materials from the UN body.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the second international conference on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in Tehran on Sunday, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh said Washington is making its utmost efforts to make the IAEA lose its independency and become a subsidiary of the UN Security Council.
"In this way Washington can manipulate the IAEA's decisions, but we will not allow this" to happen, he added.
Soltaniyeh further reminded Washington's direct role in derailing IAEA investigations into Iran's nuclear case, and said the US coaxed the world nuclear watchdog agency into referring Tehran's dossier to the UN Security Council.
"A country's nuclear dossier should be referred to the Security Council should the IAEA proves the country's nuclear activities are for military purposes, but Iran's nuclear activities are strictly peaceful," he continued.
Soltaniyeh pointed out that a country's nuclear dossier should be referred to the Security Council if the IAEA announces that it cannot inspect and examine that country's nuclear activities like what happened in North Korea.
"But, Iran is still cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog body," he reminded.
"IAEA inspectors should prove that a country does not abide by the Non-Proliferation Treaty rules and then the agency refers the issue to the Security Council but there has been no such a report about Iran," he noted.
The diplomat went on to say that, in fact, the issue of non-compliance pertains to the countries which receive nuclear materials from the agency but Iran has never received any nuclear materials from the UN body.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries.
