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MP: Majlis has not set restrictions to implementation of Additional Protocol to NPT

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, April 26, IRNA
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Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission member Mahmoud Mohammadi said Wednesday the Iranian parliament has not set any restriction to implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

In his address to the international conference dubbed `Iran's Nuclear Energy: policies and Prospects' which concluded yesterday, the MP said that Majlis has not even called for Tehran's withdrawal from the protocol's implementation.

The day-long conference was attended by domestic experts and analysts as well as their counterparts from all over the world.

However, the MP pointed out that representatives of the Iranian parliament are increasingly pushing for enforcement of a Majlis law overwhelmingly approved on December 25, 2005.

The law enjoins the Iranian government to suspend all voluntary confidence-building measures, including on-the-spot inspections by IAEA inspectors, if Iran's nuclear dossier is reported or sent to the United Nations Security Council.

Furthermore, members of parliament have to heed the Iranian nation's call for acquisition of peaceful nuclear energy and would have to pressure the government to withdraw from the NPT and prevent any future inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts, Mohammadi pointed out.

Mohammadi, in his address, did not say when and under what circumstances the MPs would pressure the government to cut relations with the IAEA.

Furthermore, the MP said he believed that a recent proposal of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei for establishment of a regional center for uranium enrichment by nuclear states under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog "deserved to be studied."
Mohammadi noted that the proposal would also absorb Moscow's proposal to enrich uranium in Iran's behalf in Russian soil.

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