Iran urges Western governments to decide on IAEA report
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Feb 24, IRNA
Iran-Security Council
Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, said members of the United Nations Security Council should decide about Iran based on existing realities.
He made the remarks commenting on Iran's expectation from China and Russia (two veto-wielding members of the Security Council) regarding the issue of Tehran peaceful nuclear activities.
"Iran has discussed its legal and logical expectations with all countries with which Tehran has political relations and made political consultations," Hosseini said.
He added that Tehran has had and will have no great expectation from the other countries than what it had said before in talks with them including the veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council.
"We asked those states that while making decision about Iran to take into consideration the existing realities and outcomes of Tehran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency," Hosseini added.
Hosseini's remarks came amid recent efforts made by the US lobbying for a third resolution at the United Nations Security Council against Iran despite a report released on February 22 by the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog verifying no-diversion of Iranian nuclear program.
The report said that in connection with the weaponization studies, the International Atomic Energy Agency has "not seen any indication that these studies were linked to nuclear material."
For future monitoring of Iranian nuclear program, the IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran to accept Additional Protocol to Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Iran said that it will accept the Additional Protocol upon return of Iranian file to the IAEA from the UN Security Council.
Iran believes that the agency is the only legitimate body to monitor its member states' nuclear activities.
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