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Iran prepared to respond to any claim or concern regarding its nuclear program - Mehmanparast

Iran Materials 12 February 2013 11:06 (UTC +04:00)
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran is ready to respond to any claim, concern or ambiguity regarding its nuclear program.
Iran prepared to respond to any claim or concern regarding its nuclear program - Mehmanparast

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 12 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran is ready to respond to any claim, concern or ambiguity regarding its nuclear program, Press TV reported live.

"Iran and IAEA has this clear transparent network, a legal one, that we try to stick to," Mehmanparast said. "The visits are being made to nuclear sites, all nuclear activity is under supervision."

Mehmanparast said that all of the concerns that there are about Iran's nuclear program, those refer to possible future activities.

"In the past we have responded to all claims and concerns," he said, adding that Iran sticks to the NPT treaty.

According to earlier statement by Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran and IAEA are set to meet tomorrow on Wednesday in Tehran to discuss the disputed nuclear program of the Islamic Republic.

The IAEA, whose mission is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, has been trying for a year to negotiate a so-called structured approach with Iran giving the inspectors access to sites, officials and documents for their long-stalled inquiry.

World powers were monitoring the IAEA-Iran talks for any signs as to whether Tehran, facing intensifying sanctions pressure, may be prepared to finally start tackling mounting international concerns about its nuclear activity.

Israel - a U.S. ally believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal - has threatened military action if diplomacy and economic sanctions intended to rein in Iran's uranium enrichment program do not resolve the stand-off.

Iran denies Western accusations that it is seeking to develop a nuclear weapons capability, saying its program is aimed only at power generation and medical research.

Mehmanparast also spoke briefly about the upcoming Kazakhstan meeting between Iran and P5+1 group.

"Both sides have to move via the clear, logical path, that has its own principles,"Mehmanparast said, adding that the nuclear rights of the Iranian people must be respected and recognized.

"At the same time, ambiguities should be removed, and concerns should be addressed. We've always been up to negotiations. All we want is to see legal rights of our people recognized, we don't want anything behond that," Mehmanparast said.

The spokesman added that recognizing the rights of the Iranian nation is on the agenda, and expressed hope that eventually the issue will be agreed upon by all sides.

Negotiations between Iran and the 'six' on Tehran's national nuclear programme will be held in Almaty on February 26.

In 2012, representatives of the 'six' and Iran held three rounds of talks in Istanbul (April 14), Baghdad (May 23-24) and Moscow (June18-19). None of these meetings resulted in breakthroughs.

Previously talks between the 'six' and Iran were not conducted for over a year.

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