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Former minister reveals US espionage in Iran

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, April 25, IRNA
Iran-US-Younesi
The former information minister, Ali Younesi here Tuesday disclosed for the first time some of the US espionage activities aiming to make Iran's nuclear case more critical.

Speaking at the international conference called `Iran's Nuclear Energy Program: Policies and Prospects', he said that in the past the US and Zionist spying agencies attempted to undermine Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.

"However, such attempts were thwarted through the vigilance of Iran's intelligence service," he added.

Younesi said that on one occasion, the US intelligence service sent its agents to Iran under the pretext of selling enriched uranium, thus enabling them to create an atmosphere against Iran.

"The spies were told to write reports to prove their lies. In fact, it might be said that the US intended to validate its own lies rather than finding out the truth," he added.

Stressing that 'Iran's constructive cooperation and transparency prevented the premature US hostile actions against the country', he noted that now no one in the world accepts the false US claims on Iran's intention to proliferate nuclear weapons.

"Even, American administrators themselves have revised their wording and say that Iran will proliferate nuclear weapons in future." The former minister said that the quagmire, in which the US and Britain are entangled, given the high price it has cost them, is created due to incorrect information and lack of attention to such facts.

"Aggravating the crisis is not the way to solve Iran's nuclear issue. They should rather accept the truth and realize that production of nuclear weapons is against the country's strategy.

"Given that continuing the nuclear crisis is against global peace and security, it should be stemmed and brought back to its normal course," he added.

Younesi referred to cooperation and mutual confidence as the most rational way to tackle the issue.

"The option currently underlined by the West, namely suspension of the nuclear fuel cycle or sanction is most irrational and a mistake much worse than the US attack on Iraq.

"These measures, which undermine the NPT, may make Iran withdraw from the UN nuclear agency," he added.

Younesi said that by aggravating Iran's nuclear crisis, the US intends to conceal its failures in Iraq.

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