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President: Enemies cannot justify mistakes committed in the name of IAEA, UNSC

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, April 26, IRNA
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that enemies cannot justify their wrong decisions to the detriment of Iran by invoking the authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and United Nations Security Council.

President Ahmadinejad made the remarks while addressing domestic and foreign reporters at a joint press conference with the visiting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir prior to the latter's departure for the central city of Isfahan.

"Wrong decisions (of the enemies) that violate our rights cannot be justified by invoking the name of the Security Council or the IAEA," he said.

"Access to nuclear technology is a right of the Iranian nation.

We seek peace and tranquility for all nations but will never renounce our legal and inalienable rights," he declared.

"Iran is the sole country whose nuclear activities are completely transparent. We are ready to hold talks to prove there has been no diversion in our peaceful nuclear activities," he added.

He reminded that "over the past 30 years of membership in the IAEA, Iran has fulfilled all its duties under the treaty and are currently moving within the IAEA framework."
The Iranian president argued that in accordance with provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the IAEA has the legal obligation to support Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, help it obtain the technology it needs, and respect its rights.

"But the agency neither provided help to Iran nor defended our rights," he said.

"We are waiting to see what the IAEA will do for us in return for Iran's fulfillment of its duties," he added.

He said Iran has always expressed interest in cooperating with the agency. Notwithstanding mistakes that may have been committed, "we gave the IAEA another opportunity to change its attitude." "Iran has access to nuclear fuel technology. We are ready to cooperate with those states which have this technology to promote our objective, prevent any diversion in activities and dismantle nuclear weapons," he declared.

Ahmadinejad went on to assure that "if international
organizations and entities recognize our legal rights, we will respect their decisions."
But, contrarily, if their decisions ignore our rights then they will be opposed," he said.

He said Iran's nuclear case will test the performance of international organizations.

"Iran's nuclear dossier will decide whether they are there to implement laws or regulations or defend nations' rights or as tools in the hands of certain bullying powers."
He expressed the hope international organizations would come up to their legal obligations so there would be no need for the Islamic Republic of Iran to review its relations with them.

"We hope they will take lessons from the behavior of the Iranian people and accept that today the Islamic Republic of Iran is a nuclear country. This is an undeniable reality.

"We have worked to obtain nuclear knowhow by ourselves. No one gave it to us so that we can say we have now received it. States which have opposed Iran's nuclear program accept this as a fact but want to obtain concessions from Iran through a psychological war," the president concluded.

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