Rafsanjani deplores performance of UN nuclear agency on Iran
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, April 25, IRNA
Iran-IAEA-Rafsanjani
Chairman of Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have failed to focus on technical aspects of Iranian nuclear program and such an approach, if continued, would harm the other member states of the agency.
"The agency failed to keep the matter on the right track." Rafsanjani dismissed US allegation that Iran has covert nuclear program and said that Iranian nuclear program is transparent and in conformity with Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran has adopted transparency on nuclear program and met all requirements of NPT.
"We decided not to hide anything and proved our goodwill to UN nuclear agency," Rafsanjani said.
He said that Russia could not fulfill its promise and now Bushehr power plant is going to be completed with a five year delay and at the same time, Russia says that it would not supply fuel for the time being.
He complained that IAEA sometimes provided enemies of Iran with pretext to orchestrate scenarios against Iranian nuclear program.
Rafsanjani said that the UN nuclear agency dealt with Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) which admitted trying to produce bomb, with leniency, but, issues anti-Iran resolution while Iranian nuclear program is only civilian.
He criticized the halt to nuclear activities for the past two years for confidence building and said that Iran should have continued with research studies in the past two years too.
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