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Iran: Amano’s new report a document on peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, September 2, IRNA -- Iran’s Ambassador and Representative at IAEA Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh announced here Friday that UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Yukia Amano’s new report is a document on peaceful nature of Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program.

Soltaniyeh added in an exclusive interview with IRNA, “The International Atomic Energy Secretary General’s report on Iran includes new positive points, the most important one of which is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s positive steps towards cooperation and transparency, in addition to repeating the message that no deviation has been observed in Iran’s nuclear activities.”

Iran’s envoy to the agency said, “In this report also reference is made to the meetings that Mr. Amano’s deputy has had recently with Vice President and Head of IRI Atomic Energy Organization Dr. Abbasi in Tehran, Amano’s meeting with IRI Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi earlier this summer in Vienna, and the week-long inspections of the Secretary Genera’s Deputy in Treaties Affairs from the Bushehr Nuclear Plant, the Natanz and Fordo enrichment facilities, the uranium fuel rod production line in Isfahan, the Arak Heavy Water Research Reactor and Heavy Water Producing Factory, and finally the IAEA delegation’s visit of the facilities for research and manufacturing of advanced new generation centrifuges.”

Soltaniyeh emphasized, “In this report it is stated very clearly that Iran cooperates in offering the required information, eliminating the ambiguities, and replying to some of the posed questions.”

He added, “All in all, this report is inclusive of more positive parts, compared with the past reports, and can therefore be considered as a positive step forward.”

Iran’s Ambassador to the Agency also said, “Of course other parts of the report are inclusive of repetitive and unjustifiable points, such as the UN Security Council resolutions and requesting Iran to halt its enrichment activities, as the background of the report, which the Islamic Republic of Iran has time and again proved, quoting the related international rules and regulations, that such requests have neither any legal, not any technical justification.”

Soltaniyeh at the end expressed hope that the agency would keep up its constructive and technical interactions devoid of politicizing the matter and avoid yielding to certain countries’ pressure, and that the international community would be more than before witness to this reality that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear activities are fully peaceful.”

He added, “Meanwhile, everyone must know that the Islamic Republic of Iran will by no means and under no conditions yield to ignoring its absolute natural rights as stressed in the Letter of Association of the Agency, and the nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and will not compromise on them under any circumstances.”

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