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It is Iran's sovereignty right to vet IAEA inspectors

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday it is Iran’s sovereignty rights to vet inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency in light of their background and activities.

Speaking to domestic and foreign reporters in his weekly briefing, he said Iran honors its commitments to Non-Proliferation Treaty and never hesitates to fully cooperate with the IAEA.

Iran is determined to continue with its cooperation with the body in line with Charter of the UN nuclear agency, he underlined.

Iran challenged Monday night report of IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano on Iran as being composed in a way undermining technical capability of the UN nuclear agency.

In his report on Iran, Amano criticized Iran for refusing two inspectors of the agency to its nuclear sites.

Iran had already declared that certain inspectors of the agency have proved to trumpet the pipeline of propaganda campaign set by Washington against Iranian nuclear program.

Mehmanparast confirmed that Iran has produced 22 kilograms 20 percent enriched uranium for Tehran medical research reactor and said that Iran already declared its plans to produce fuel for Tehran medical reactor after the IAEA failed to arrange delivery of fuel by the western suppliers.

Iran says Tehran medical reactor operating since early 1970s to produce medicines to cure cancer patients is currently working below its capacity due to fuel shortage.

The IAEA has failed to fulfill its commitments in line with its Charter to coordinate delivery of 20 percent fuel by the western suppliers to Tehran medical research reactor.

Currently 400,000 cancer patients are using medicines and isotopes being produced by Tehran medical research reactor.

On fuel swap deal proposed by IAEA, Mehmanparast said that Iran is still waiting for the Vienna Group including IAEA to deliver 3.5 percent enriched uranium in return for twenty percent fuel for Tehran medical research reactor.

A timeframce has been envisaged for the swap in Tehran Declaration brokered by Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last March.

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