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Soltanieh: Amano's report completely missed facts

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Sept 13, IRNA -- Iran's IAEA envoy, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, here on Monday voiced regret over defects in the IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano's recent Iran report and hoped for their remedy.

'It is regrettable that in spite of our thorough explanation prior to the distribution, your report completely missed the facts, already reported by your predecessor, based on the reports of the inspectors, and is not a balance one. I still hope that this would be only a technical drafting mistake by the Agency and not a new political approach and I sincerely expect your remedy measures in this respect,' read Soltanieh's letter to Amano, that a copy of which was made available to IRNA on Monday.

The full text of the letter is as follows:

'Excellency,

'Upon instruction from my Government, I would like to express the preliminary views of the Islamic Republic of Iran on your report GOV/2010/46 dated 6 September 2010 as follows:

'1. While your report once again reconfirmed that “while the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran”, it seems that the report has been prepared under pressure from outside to use the “unusual” language with regard to the safeguards obligations, since the Agency has to simply confirm that it has already verified non-diversion of the declared nuclear material and all declared nuclear material are accounted for and remained in peaceful purposes, as already reported by the Agency’s inspectors.

'2. The report consists of unnecessarily extensive details on the ongoing ordinary technical activities of the peaceful nuclear activities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which contravenes the protection of the sensitive proprietary information of the Member States.

'3. Reporting so much technical details proves that the Agency has the full access to all nuclear material and facilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the frequent inspections with using the Agency’s containment and surveillances. Therefore, claiming that “Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation” is incorrect and misleading. It has to be noted that additional requests are beyond the provisions of the NPT Comprehensive Safeguards, and they have been made under the pretext of the illegal UNSC resolutions.

'4. The Islamic Republic of Iran has already made it clear, based on legal provision such as those of the Statute and the Safeguards Agreement, the reasons why the UNSC resolutions against Iran are illegal and unjustified. The issue of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has unlawfully been conveyed to the UNSC and the Council has taken a wrong approach by adopting the politically-motivated, illegal and unjust UNSC resolutions against Iran. Therefore, any request by the Agency originated from those resolutions is not legitimate and not acceptable.

'5. The report, without any justification, has in an unprecedented manner copied some parts of the illegal UNSC resolution 1929. This is not the right way of reporting by an autonomous specialized Agency, entering into political game of certain countries. The Agency with such wrong approach would definitely deviate from the Statute of the Agency and jeopardizes its credibility and put into question its independence.

'6. The last but not the least, with regard to the baseless so-called “alleged studies”, the Agency should be reminded that according to the Modalities of Resolution of the Outstanding Issues (INFCIRC/711), this is not an outstanding issue. Furthermore, the facts that the material of the alleged studies lack authenticity, no nuclear material was used and no components were made as they have declared by the former Director General, are also missing in this report. In the same context the notion of the “possible military dimensions” is absolutely out of context of the Modality (INFCIRC/711) already negotiated and agreed upon by the Agency as well as its mandate.

'It is regrettable that in spite of our thorough explanation prior to the distribution, your report completely missed the facts, already reported by your predecessor, based on the reports of the inspectors, and is not a balance one. I still hope that this would be only a technical drafting mistake by the Agency and not a new political approach and I sincerely expect your remedy measures in this respect.

'Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

'A. A. Soltanieh

'Director General of the IAEA'