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Soltanieh: Iran has left no IAEA questions without answer

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, May 29, IRNA
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Iran's Envoy in the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said on Thursday that Tehran has not left any question without answer.

Soltanieh told reporters after an explanatory session of IAEA Board of Governors that Tehran-IAEA representatives had focused on the issue of alleged studies, and that Iran has replied even more 20 questions of the UN atomic watchdog.

He further noted that the documents on the alleged studies submitted to the agency on May 20 and that Iran has proved the allegations and their documents are unfounded and artificial.

Soltanieh underlined that over the two-month talks with Mr.

Heinonen and his colleagues, Iran presented 100 documents to prove its stance towards the alleged studies.

The remarkable issue is that Tehran and IAEA studied documents related to the green salt project, which was focused on by the agency for judgment, but lastly the IAEA delegation accepted the alleged case was counterfeit and baseless.

Excerpts of alleged military activities lacked seal of secret, he said, arguing that how such important information can be easily available without the seal.

Date, names, places and many other traits of the alleged documents lacked coordination, Soltanieh said, adding that IAEA has reached the same conclusion over the fake information.

Every country possesses information on conventional military activities including explosives, but they call on Iran to provide them with its conventional military data, he said.

"If a country has documents on activities of another nation, it should present them to IAEA secretariat and wait for the agency's announcement, but certain countries attempt to pursue the strategy of hue and cry in this respect," he added.

The US meddling has caused new challenges for technical activities of the IAEA secretariat, he said, adding that they try to dictate particular trend to the agency, but Iran will hinder continuation of such process.

Iran's envoy in IAEA further underlined that the director general has deplored the interventions and impediments which affected the IAEA technical trend, and that Mr. Heinonen affirmed the issue has brought about some problems.

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