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IAEA pressure on Iran to ratify protocol non-democratic: official

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Shahroud, Mazandaran prov, June 18, IRNA -- Kazem Jalali, a member of 
Iranian parliament, here Thursday censured the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA), saying the UN`s nuclear watchdog`s pressure on 
Iran to ratify the additional protocol to NPT is not democratic. 
Talking to IRNA, parliament`s National Security and Foreign 
Policy Commission spokesman criticized the "tough" language used in 
the IAEA draft resolution, adding it is not acceptable the European 
trio (Britain, France, and Germany) in a non-democratic move impose 
their decision on Majlis and set assignment for it. 
His remarks came as the big European three submitted a draft 
resolution to the IAEA`s Board of Governors, urging Iran to approve 
the protocol. 
The protocol would allow the IAEA inspectors to conduct snap 
inspections of the Iranian nuclear sites. 
Tehran signed the protocol in December 2003 but it still has to 
be ratified by the 7th Majlis, which opened on May 27. 
The MP assured that ratification of the protocol will be 
facilitated if the agency and its board resolve the issue through a 
technical approach and free from outside pressure. 
Representative of Shahroud stressed that it is the absolute right 
of Iran to have access to nuclear energy and no one can deprive 
the country. 
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