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Iran slams US for meddling in IAEA-Tehran talks
Irish Sun
Wednesday 28th May, 2008
(IANS)
Iran's new Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday said parliament would set limits on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the nuclear issue if the US continues to influence the UN nuclear watchdog's interaction with the government.
'A mysterious diplomatic give-and-take is underway between US and the UN nuclear agency to bring baseless allegations against Iran,' Larijani said in his first reaction to a report IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei, IRNA reported.
IAEA released a report Monday saying Iran has failed to adequately answer questions based on intelligence that shows the Islamic state may have sought nuclear arms.
'Substantive explanations are required from Iran to support its statements on the alleged studies and on other information with a possible military dimension' of its nuclear activities,' the IAEA report said.
Following the report US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack accused Tehran of being 'wilfully non-cooperative' over the nuclear issue.
'The West must stop its secretive diplomatic scheme of passing Iran's nuclear case back and forth between the IAEA and the five permanent UN members plus Germany,' Larijani, his country's former nuclear negotiator with the IAEA, said.
'This parliament will not allow such a deception,' Larijani said, adding that 'Should such a trend continue, parliament will set new limits on cooperation with the IAEA.'
He claimed that several articles of ElBaradei's latest report have been written in an 'ambiguous' way and criticised media misinformation about Iran's peaceful nuclear activities in the past few days.
The IAEA has admitted that all nuclear substances of the enrichment fuel factory and the heavy water plant are under the agency's supervision, Larijani stressed.
'The IAEA report also stressed that no sign of enrichment-related re-processing activities have been witnessed in Iran's installations and that the agency is monitoring the country's heavy water-related activities by satellite pictures,' Larijani said.
He asked the nuclear watchdog to issue law-based reports without allowing itself to be trapped in disinformation.
ElBaradei's latest report, which was circulated Monday evening to the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors, showed serious concern on Iran's nuclear programme.
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| By harold johnson, 05-31-08, 12:13 AM |
Iran slams US for meddling in IAEA-Tehran talksExcerpts from the book by Bush’s mouthpiece Mr Scott McLennan, just now out, should be quoted as reference for those interested in the fullest understanding this US administration. |
| By waltky, 09-22-08, 11:57 PM |
| ElBaradei suspicious of Iran...
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IAEA: Iran May Be Hiding Nuclear Activity
September 22, 2008 - IAEA chief: Impossible to know whether Iran hiding nuclear activity without more access
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Monday that he cannot determine whether Iran is hiding some nuclear activities, comments that appeared to reflect a high level of frustration with stonewalling of his investigators. IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran’s stonewalling of his agency was a “serious concern." “Iran needs to give the agency substantive information” to clear up suspicions, he said at the start of a 35-nation board IAEA meeting, in comments made available to reporters. Diplomats at the gathering described ElBaradei’s comments as unusually blunt.
ElBaradei rejected the Iranian suggestion that the IAEA probe could expose non-nuclear military secrets, saying the IAEA “does not in any way seek to 'pry' into Iran’s conventional or missile-related military activities." “We need, however, to make use of all relevant information to be able to confirm that no nuclear material is being used for nuclear weapons purposes," he said, urging Iran to “implement all measures required to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program at the earliest possible date." If Tehran fails to do so, the IAEA “will not be able to provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran," he said.
A senior Iranian envoy accused the United States of trying to use the IAEA as a tool in Washington’s confrontation with Tehran. Iran, he said, has demonstrated full cooperation with the agency. Allegations of nuclear weapons work by Tehran is based on forged documents and the issue is closed, the envoy said. With time running out before Tehran develops potential nuclear weapons capacity, some worry that Israel or the U.S. might resort to military strikes if they believe all diplomatic options have been exhausted.
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