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Iran says it was not necessary to give full report to IAEA

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 25, IRNA -- Tehran said on Wednesday it did not deem 
it necessary to report to the International Atomic Energy Agency 
outcome of its research on centrifuge P2. 
Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Hojatoleslam Hassan
Rowhani told reporters prior to his departure for India that Iran does
not have the centrifuge and is only conducting related research or 
designing a prototype. 
Rowhani denied an IAEA claim that there were some centers in 
Iran which operated centrifuge P2 for enrichment purposes and said 
it is only in the stage of research. 
He said the subject does not represent all the research Iran 
is conducting, rather Iranian experts are engaged in research on other
issues. 
He added that Iran is engaged in other types of research but has 
not reported it to the IAEA and does not deem it necessary to report 
to the UN. 
Commenting on recent report of the IAEA concerning Iran, Rowhani 
said it contained positive points. 
The official said Iran has given necessary and complete 
responses to the IAEA. 
Rowhani then turned to the controversy on suppliers of the 
nuclear technology to Iran, saying that one of the brokers who has 
supplied Iran with polluted parts has acknowledged in interrogations 
that they had sent polluted parts to Iran and due to the same reason 
the agency must look for a third government involved in the case. 
Elsewhere in the interview, Rowhani said Iran had voluntarily 
suspended the uranium enrichment program for the sake of confidence 
building. 
He then commented on the time set for resuming uranium enrichment 
program, Rowhani said Iran has not specified any date for the project 
but it will however resume it one day as is suggested by the word 
`voluntary.` 
He said Iran expects the IAEA to move in line with settlement of 
problem with Iran considering Iran`s full cooperation. 
He added that Iran is in talks with all members of the IAEA board 
of governors and the IAEA itself including European and Non-Aligned 
Movement states. 
Switching to elections, Rowhani said European states` claims 
with regards to the elections are not very strong because Europe 
knows that elections in Iran are held in a legal and healthy manner 
and that there was a high turnout for it. 
The SNSC secretary said "the Iranian people do not need anybody 
to teach them democracy lessons." 
He said statements made by European officials are the 
result of Europeans` false analysis of Iran`s internal conditions and 
will not affect relations between Iran and European Union. 
As for future of Iran-US elections, Rowhani said Americans 
always take one step forward and one step backward. 
He said that in the Bam incident they took one step forward but 
changed their tone in the February 20th elections. 
He added that Iran intends to ease tension in its ties with US 
and said Americans had themselves created the tension and they should 
themselves settle it. 
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