Tehran, Iran, Apr. 20
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
Iran Atomic Energy Organization Spokesman Berooz Kamalvandi has said that the US State Department made a mistake in publishing a fact sheet on the recent Lausanne framework nuclear agreement.
He underlined that the fact sheet will turn out to be a burden on the US and alter the course of talks in the future nuclear negotiations, IRNA news agency reported April 20.
He also pointed to the IAEA has requested to visit the Parchin military site and said that the West is using the issue as a tool to create a negative media atmosphere against Iran.
" Parchin is very useful for them for running a campaign against Iran, because they know well that we will not allow access to the inspectors," he said.
Kamalvandi further pointed out that President Hassan Rouhani has told IAEA Secretary General Yukiya Amano that Iran would allow inspection of the site only once.
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday it had a "constructive exchange" this week with Iran on two issues related to its nuclear program that the agency says Tehran has been failing to fully address since August.
Headed by IAEA Deputy Director General Tero Varjoranta, an IAEA delegation held an expert meeting with Iran April 15.
Following an announcement by Yukiya Amano last year, Iran and the agency are going through a step-by-step process to clarify Iran's nuclear program, of which two steps have been taken so far.
"In the third step they had some questions and they still pose some questions and the Islamic Republic of Iran still answers their questions," Kamalvandi said April 15.
He explained that the IAEA questions relate to neutron transfer reactions as well as a last-year blast around the city of Marivan in western Iran.
Edited by CN
Mehdi Sepahvand is Trend Agency's journalist in Iran, follow him on Twitter: @mehdisepahvand