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IAEA releases new report on Iran

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Feb 21, IRNA -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano's new report on Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program was distributed among IAEA members on Thursday.

Sometimes, IAEA's reports are released 10 days before the IAEA's board of governors' quarterly meeting.

The next IAEA quarterly meeting is scheduled for March 4 at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna.

Last round of talks between Iran and IAEA was held in Tehran on February 13.

Iran has always reiterated that it will not accept anything beyond its legal undertakings regarding Parchin military site.

Also on Wednesday, Iran's Permanent Representative to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh said that in last Wednesday's talks between Iran and the IAEA in Tehran, the two sides succeeded in obviating some differences and agreed to continue their negotiations in future.

Some differences of opinion were solved, some modality articles were approved, and it was decided that the new proposals made would be surveyed and the results would be reported at next session, Soltaniyeh said on Wednesday night.

'Expert level negotiations with the eight-member IAEA delegation, headed by IAEA's deputy director general on the modality, which is a framework for the final settlement of the claims made about the Iranian nuclear program, were done today (Wednesday) in Tehran,' he added.

The date for next round of talks between the two sides has not been set as yet.

The IAEA team, headed by IAEA Deputy Director-General Herman Nackaerts, arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in the early hours of Wednesday.

The IAEA experts discussed issues pertaining to Tehran's nuclear energy program with the Iranian officials.

Additionally, Iran and the IAEA held talks in Tehran in January and also mid-December and the two sides discussed a modality plan for their cooperation.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stressed that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide clean energy to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member-state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

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