Iran calls on IAEA chief to resist pressures
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Nov 24, IRNA
Iran-IAEA-Report
Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, called on the UN nuclear agency's chief, Mohamed Elbaradei, to resist pressures while composing report on Iran.
Qashqavi made the remarks commenting on ElBaradei's 14th report on Iran on November 22 reaffirming the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.
The spokesman recommended the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general to act within the agency's regulations and reject pressures exerted on him by certain governments.
"It is quite clear that there was political pressures out of the the IAEA's framework," Qashqavi said during his weekly press conference.
He stressed that certain countries with certain purposes were putting pressures on ElBaradei.
In his report to the agency's 35-member Board of Governors, ElBaradei reaffirmed that all activities of Iran's nuclear facilities were under the agency's surveillance and that there have been no indications of reprocessing.
However, the report also raised the issue of Iran's alleged studies to produce atomic bomb.
Iran has repeatedly denied the allegation calling it as fabrication.
"Iran has repeatedly announced that if there is any evidence on the alleged studies, it should be handed over to Tehran," Rapporteur of Iran's Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali said on Friday.
The US raised the issue of alleged studies after Iran resolved all the outstanding issues with IAEA in the context of a Modality Plan signed by Iran and the UN nuclear agency last year.
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