'Canada’s remarks on Iranian nuclear program laughable'

TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday that Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird’s recent remarks about Tehran’s nuclear program are not worth responding to. Baird, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post in early February, said, “What we know is that this (Iran) is a regime that is enriching uranium and that has a clear nuclear arms program underway. That is undisputable.” Mehmanparast said, “Those remarks do not meet the lowest diplomatic standards, so they are not worth responding to.” “Mr. Baird should fully clarify why he strongly made the laughable claim that Iran is producing nuclear weapons while the International Atomic Energy Agency has officially announced dozens of times that Iran’s nuclear program is under the full supervision of this international body and no evidence of diversion has ever been found,” he added. In response to Baird’s comments on the human rights situation in Iran, in which he had said that the Islamic Republic has a “disgraceful human rights record,” Mehmanparast advised the Canadian government to make efforts to improve the appalling conditions that the indigenous people of Canada are experiencing.