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MP: Iran-IAEA cooperation should follow its natural course

IRNA

Tehran, Aug 30, IRNA -- Head of National Security and Foreign 
Policy Commission at Majlis Mohsen Mirdamadi said here on Saturday 
that Iran`s cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
should follow its natural course. 
Mirdamadi told visiting European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief 
Javier Solana here that insistence on accelerating such cooperation 
might bear reverse results. 
He stressed Iran`s peaceful use of nuclear technology and said 
Tehran has no inclination to use the technology for military purposes.
He added that Iran has fully cooperated with the IAEA and is quite
ready to hold talks on the Agency`s additional protocol. 
The parliamentarian referred to the arrest of Iran`s former envoy 
to Argentina Hadi Soleimanpour by British police, saying that the 
issue might have adverse effect on Iran-Argentina ties as well as the 
country`s relations with the EU. 
He urged Solana to do his best to solve the issue in a favorable 
manner. 
He strongly deplored assassination of the Head of the Supreme 
Assembly of Islamic Revolution in Iraq (IAEA) Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer
Hakim in Najaf on Friday and said growing instability and insecurity 
in Iraq is alarming. 
He added that the only way to handle the issue is the pivotal role
of the UN in Iraq and all countries` cooperation with the UN to 
speedily solve problems in Iraq. 
The official said, "Iraq`s administration is needed to be ceded 
to the Iraqi people, otherwise insecurity would continue unabated in 
the country at alarming pace." 
Solana too deplored strongly the assassination of Ayatollah 
Hakim and said the UN should play a more active role in Iraq. 
He stressed Iran`s important status in the region and its right 
for peaceful use of nuclear energy, praising Iran`s cooperation with 
the IAEA. 
He called for further transparency in Iran`s nuclear activities 
and hoped that Iran`s decisions would improve its relations with the 
EU. 
He referred to the arrest of Soleimanpour and said Iran and 
Argentina should cooperate to peacefully solve the sensitive issue. 
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