Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 6 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
Iran has criticized the latest report by the UN Secretary General on the human rights situation in the country, IRNA reported.
In a written message to the 193-nation assembly, IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano reiterated his oft-stated concerns about the agency's decade-long probe of Iran's nuclear program.
"Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation to enable us to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities," his statement said. "Therefore, we cannot conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities."
Speaking at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on the annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said the report was biased, selective, and unacceptable.
Khazaee in particular noted that IAEA has ignored the "dangerous Israeli nuclear arsenal".
"One-sided views of the IAEA reduce agency's efficiency, reliability and credibility," Khazaee said, adding that in the future the cooperation with the agency should continue without any discrimination.
Speaking of the NPT, Khazaee said that Iran considers development of the full nuclear fuel cycle an "inalienable right", under the treaty.
Western powers and their allies fear Iran is amassing the capability to produce atomic weapons, an allegation Tehran rejects. The Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt nuclear-fuel work, but Tehran has pressed ahead with uranium enrichment.
Khazaee accused the United States, Britain and France of supplying Israel - which is not a party to the 1970 treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear arms and is widely assumed to be the Middle East's sole nuclear power - with atomic "assistance and cooperation."
"The application of a discriminatory, selective, highly restrictive and politically motivated approach in nuclear cooperation...has given rise to this impression that being an NPT party is not a privilege, because rather than facilitating, it impedes nuclear cooperation," he said.