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Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:05
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Iran Changes Prerequisites for N. Talks with World Powers
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian nuclear official announced that Tehran has changed its preconditions for talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the world powers.
"They (the westerners) used to say that Iran should not enrich uranium. Now they say the country should not install centrifuges and should stop enriching uranium to a purity level of 20 percent. Meanwhile, they are seeking to damage our nuclear facilities through viruses and selling (us) defective equipment," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi said in an interview with the Iranian students news agency.
"Technically speaking, we should push ahead with our plans and adopt all the measures necessary to coordinate the AEOI and our country's political apparatus for the nuclear discussions."
Commenting on IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's recent report on Iran's nuclear program, Abbasi said, "Amano should not have included the alleged weapons studies in his report because he has not negotiated with Iran on this matter."
For years, IAEA reports have said that the agency cannot provide assurances about Iran's undeclared nuclear material, he stated.
Since the agency is not sure about the studies, it would be better if it did not include the sentence in its reports, he added.
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.
Analysts believe that the US is at loggerheads with Iran due mainly to 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. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
The US attempt to push for stronger Security Council sanctions has been undermined even by the country's own national intelligence estimate, published in late 2007, which said Iran is not pursuing a weapons program.
"They (the westerners) used to say that Iran should not enrich uranium. Now they say the country should not install centrifuges and should stop enriching uranium to a purity level of 20 percent. Meanwhile, they are seeking to damage our nuclear facilities through viruses and selling (us) defective equipment," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi said in an interview with the Iranian students news agency.
"Technically speaking, we should push ahead with our plans and adopt all the measures necessary to coordinate the AEOI and our country's political apparatus for the nuclear discussions."
Commenting on IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's recent report on Iran's nuclear program, Abbasi said, "Amano should not have included the alleged weapons studies in his report because he has not negotiated with Iran on this matter."
For years, IAEA reports have said that the agency cannot provide assurances about Iran's undeclared nuclear material, he stated.
Since the agency is not sure about the studies, it would be better if it did not include the sentence in its reports, he added.
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.
Analysts believe that the US is at loggerheads with Iran due mainly to 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. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
The US attempt to push for stronger Security Council sanctions has been undermined even by the country's own national intelligence estimate, published in late 2007, which said Iran is not pursuing a weapons program.
