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Ayat. Khatami: Board's anti-Iran resolution harms IAEA reputation

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Nov 28, IRNA -- Eid-ul-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said here Saturday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Board of Governors will suffer the most from an anti-Iran resolution passed by the universal body on Friday.

“Recent resolution of the (IAEA’s) Board of Governors against the Islamic Republic of Iran, before being anti-Iranian, is against the IAEA and the Board of Governors, harming the Agency’s reputation,” said Ayatollah Khatami in his Eid-ul-Adha congregational prayers sermon at Tehran University campus.

He said, “If the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose activities – as they (the IAEA) admit – are, based on the IAEA’s regulations, free from any diversion and for peaceful purposes, is treated this way, other countries will be reluctant to join the Agency and have their activities under its supervision.”

He added that Iranian nation has over the past 30 years shown that does not and wont compromise its absolute rights neither for carrot nor stick, being determined to follow up its peaceful nuclear program.

As for the fuel supply to Tehran Research Reactor, Ayatollah Khatami said, “You have the duty to provide fuel for Tehran Nuclear Reactor based on the fuel law."

He said Iranian youth will roll up sleeves and supply fuel for the research reactor if westerners fail to do so.

“If you supply fuel, it will be ok; otherwise, the (Iranian) nation, that has reached this point relying on its capability, will produce fuel for Tehran Research Reactor itself under God’s grace and through its youth," said Ayatollah Khatami.

Production of fuel for Tehran Research Reactor by Iran is both legal and consistent with nuclear safeguards, said Ayatollah Khatami, adding, “The Islamic Republic of Iran will hence use other alternatives to deal with you.”

Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Khatami advised the audience to respect heads of the three branches of government – Chief Executive, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Head of the Legislative Body (Majlis Speaker) Ali Larijani and Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani -- and the Expediency Council Chairman, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, per guidelines of the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

People and the media should not deal with the Supreme Leader’s guidelines selectively, said the Ayatollah.

He noted that people at large should heed guidelines of the Supreme Leader and exercise unity in defiance of enemy's divisive propaganda.

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End News / IRNA / News Code 814204