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Rowhani criticizes IAEA for its stance toward Iran

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, March 13, IRNA -- Secretary-General of Iran`s Supreme 
National Security Council Hassan Rowhani here on Saturday criticized 
the UN nuclear watchdog for its stance on Iran. 
Speaking in a gathering of Iranian and foreign reporters, Rowhani 
said the resolution adopted by the UN nuclear watchdog on Iran`s 
nuclear activities was unfair, adding it falls short of recognizing 
Iran`s extensive cooperation with the IAEA over the past months and 
what it reflects are beyond realities. 
Rowhani further noted that the IAEA resolution fails to consider 
the views of important veto-wielding countries such as China and 
Russian federation as well as those of the Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) 
NAM state have 13 out of 35 seats on the IAEA Governing Board and 
proposed a series of amendments to tone down the draft resolution 
adopted on Iran. For example, NAM wanted the word "deplores" in the 
resolution to be changed to "strongly regrets". 
Rowhani further noted that though the resolution creates no 
commitment for Iran but "the tone of the resolution was not suitable."
He said Iran was dissatisfied with some clauses of the resolution 
adding that what is important is that the representatives of all 
countries, except the representative of Canada, spoke in favor of the 
Islamic Republic. 
He said this shows that the United States failed to lead the IAEA 
session as it wanted to and that the stance adopted by Iran was right.
All the states participating in the session declined to support a 
proposal set forth by the United States to refer Iran`s case to the 
Security Council and called for the issue to be settled through 
dialogue and peacefully. 
Rowhani said this was a great success for the Islamic Republic 
while terming some clause of the resolution as a "deceiving trick". 
He said the comparison between Iran and Libya was absolutely 
irrelevant and meant just to deceive the public opinion of the world 
nations. 
Rowhani said the Americans were after sparking a tension targeting
the Islamic Republic of Iran but it seems that the United States has 
received a setback rather than anything else. 
Rowhani praised the NAM states, China and Russia for their 
realistic and rational attitudes vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear 
activities. 
He said however Iran was not satisfied with the stances taken by 
three European states France, Britain and Germany with which Iran had 
talked on its nuclear programs and sought to find out solutions to the
dilemma. 
He termed the IAEA resolution draft as the one presenting image 
of an `ugly devil with dangerous horns and sharp teeth`, whose horns 
are now removed, and its teeth are broken but its ugly image still 
remains. 
Rowhani went on to say that certain sections of the resolution 
have exaggerated realities, for instance the P-2 part, which is far 
from realities. 
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