Soltaniyeh: IAEA members concerned about Israel nuclear weapons
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Vienna, June 10, IRNA -- Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said here on Thursday that a large number of IAEA members have voiced their concern over Zionist regime’s nuclear weapons.
Soltaniyeh made the remarks during a session of IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna.
“Given US efforts to mislead world public opinion on Israel nuclear weapons, fortunately te issue of “Zionist regime’s nuclear weapons was discussed at the session of IAEA Board of Governors,” he said.
Referring to the support of US representative to IAEA for Israel's nuclear weapons, he underlined that such measures have discredited the US administration.
Meanwhile, Soltaniyeh said in Vienna on Wednesday that a lot of defects could be seen in IAEA Chief Yukia Amano’s report on Iran nuclear program.
He added the Islamic Republic of Iran as a member of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are under political pressure from certain countries which possess nuclear weapons.
He said that Iran is the only member of NPT which fully cooperated with the NPT Review Conference in 2010.
“Given 4,000 hours of inspections, the previous and current IAEA chiefs have declared there is no diversion in Iran's nuclear activities towards military purposes,” Soltaniyeh said.
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