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Iranian MP calls IAEA to report facts about country's peaceful nuclear program

Iran Materials 16 February 2013 03:23 (UTC +04:00)

Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to avoid politically-tainted approach towards Iran and reflect the realities about Tehran's peaceful nuclear program, FNA reported.

The IAEA should avoid politicization of its reports on Iran and issue them (reports) based on facts, Boroujerdi said on Friday.

As regards UN agency's request to visit Iran's Parchin military site, the lawmaker said the demand is beyond the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Iran is not obligated to open its military sites, including Parchin, to the IAEA inspectors, the legislator said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that Iran will not accept anything beyond its legal undertakings regarding Parchin military site.

Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting here in Tehran, President Ahmadinejad pointed to the UN experts' possible visit to the Parchin military site, near Tehran, and stated, "We have set up an expert team in this regards (Parchin) and we will accept nothing beyond the law."

Also on Wednesday, Iran's Residing Representative to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh said that during the Wednesday talks in Tehran between Iran and the IAEA 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 new proposals made would be surveyed and results would be reported at next session, Soltaniyeh said on Wednesday night.

"Expert level negotiations with the eight-member IAEA delegation, headed by deputy agency secretary general on the modality, which is a framework for final solving of the claims made about the Iranian nuclear program were done today in Tehran," he added.

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

The International Atomic Energy Agency team, headed by Deputy Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 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 Iranian officials.


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