Rowhani regrets IAEA being abused by Washington
IRNA
Tehran, Oct 7, IRNA -- Secretary of the Supreme National Security
Council (SNSC) here on Tuesday deplored the abuse of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the United States.
"This is the worst kind of interference in international law and
order when a specialized United Nations agency and its legal authority
is exploited for political objective of the United States," Rowhani
said in his address to 18th Conference of the Friday Prayers Leaders
from across the country.
He said that the Iranian philosophy and the Islamic commands
forbid using the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and Iran appeals to
the international community to make the Middle East free from WMD.
"From the outset, Iran has exercised good cooperation on
non-proliferation treaty (NPT) by signing the treaty. Iran was among
the first regional countries which signed the Convention on
Prohibiting Chemical Weapons (CPCW)," Rowhani pointed out.
He deplored that there is ominous goals behind raising controversy
about Iranian nuclear program and said that none of the provocative
statements could make Iran abandon its national program to generate
electricity by using nuclear energy.
"The United States has orchestrated the controversy over Iranian
nuclear program. Washington, taking advantage of the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, has embarked on turning the international
community into a security issue and pursuing it as a strategy," he
said.
Washington imposed the unilateral war on Iraq for what it called
the possession of WMD and it became clear later that Iraq did not
have such weapons. The shameful air raid on Syria of Israel also took
place thanks to unconditional US support for the occupying power in
Palestine, he said.
Iran will never allow its national nuclear program to cause
tension in its relations with other countries and pursues intensive
work with the IAEA to encourage the agency to extend expertise to Iran
for its national program.
He said that Iran has two concerns about the NPT and performance
of the IAEA, and that Iran opposes the current discrimination in
implementing the NPT whose main part is transfer of technology to
member states.
The IAEA has withheld the technology from Iran and Iran believes
the same thing will happen about the IAEA commitments over the
additional protocol to NPT.
Secondly, Iran has concerns about the context of the additional
protocol, because the IAEA has not proved it can work independently of
Washington`s political agenda, Rowhani said.
"The decision-making bodies of the Islamic Republic of Iran will
not compromise over national sovereignty and the rights of the Iranian
nation," he said.
"The conflict between Iran and the United States emanates from the
fact that Iran presses ahead with national economic development plan,
but, the US has objections to Iran`s development and progress," he
said.
The United States froze dlrs 12 billion Iranian deposits in
American banks since 1979. The money should have been channeled to
national development projects to provide welfare for the Iranian
people, create jobs for the youth and bolster social security
services.
Angry with kicking out the US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1979, the
United States spared no efforts to conspire to install a puppet regime
in Iran and return the national deposit to the puppet regime, but to
no avail.
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