IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program "a slap on US face"
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, November 19, IRNA
India-Iran-IAEA Report
An Indian academic Monday termed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's peaceful nuclear program "a slap on US face".
"World has come to know that Iran's nuclear activities are fully transparent and US pressure on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment has no legal basis," said Professor Baseer Ahmed, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi.
He added that when IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in his Iran report to the Agency's Board of Governors that "the written answers Iran delivered to the Agency support the documentation proving Iranian compliance with Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Safeguards", then all the peace loving countries including India should come forward to support Iran and should ask UN to pressurize US and its allies to apologize to the Islamic Republic of Iran for all accusations and baseless claims made against it.
Asking UN to remove the illegal sanctions imposed on Iran, Baseer said, "IAEA findings on Iran's peaceful nuclear program proved that the referral of Iran's case to the UN Security Council had been an irrational act".
The Iranian nuclear programme is completely peaceful in nature, and there is no evidence to the contrary. IAEA, the body responsible for the control over the spread of nuclear technology, has not yet presented any specific objections against it, said Baseer. No other bodies, or governments, have the authority and sufficient expertise to assess this programme impartially. The IAEA checks the Iranian facilities but they have never found anything suspicious. "I think the US's suspicions that Iran intends to develop nuclear weapons are not based on real facts, but on political attitudes," he added.
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