Iran Slams IAEA Report: A Political Move To Overshadow NAM
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Iran slammed Friday the report by the UN nuclear watchdog accusing Tehran of multiplying the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker.
"Publishing this report while Iran is holding the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting does not mean anything other than it was a political move aimed at overshadowing the meeting in Tehran," lawmaker Kazem Jalali told the ISNA news agency.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report claimed Thursday that despite threat of an "Israeli" or US military strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site, buried deep underground to withstand any such hit.
"It seems that this report is a scenario for psychological warfare because Iran was able to show its authority and international position at the NAM summit," said Jalali, a member of parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee.
This comes as Iran succeeded in hosting of the summit of the 120-nation group of developing nations as proof that Western efforts to isolate it for its disputed nuclear program have failed.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, representing the P5+1, is to talk with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili "in the coming days," Ashton's spokesman said on Thursday.
Iranian officials have dismissed the UN concerns over their nuclear activities, saying that Parchin was an off-limits military base, that the focus on it was overblown and that suspicions about its atomic program were based on "false" Western intelligence.
The IAEA's quarterly report on Iran said buildings had been demolished and earth removed at the military site the agency wants to inspect, in what Western diplomats see as an effort by Tehran to remove any evidence of illicit nuclear-linked tests.
Based on the report, the number of centrifuges at Fordow, near the holy Muslim city of Qom, about 130 km (80 miles) from Tehran, had more than doubled to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. The new machines were not yet operating, it said.
During his speech at the NAM summit on Thursday, Iran's Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei confirmed that Iran's nuclear program was entirely peaceful. "Our motto is nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none," he said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
Iran slammed Friday the report by the UN nuclear watchdog accusing Tehran of multiplying the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker.
"Publishing this report while Iran is holding the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting does not mean anything other than it was a political move aimed at overshadowing the meeting in Tehran," lawmaker Kazem Jalali told the ISNA news agency.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report claimed Thursday that despite threat of an "Israeli" or US military strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site, buried deep underground to withstand any such hit.
"It seems that this report is a scenario for psychological warfare because Iran was able to show its authority and international position at the NAM summit," said Jalali, a member of parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee.
This comes as Iran succeeded in hosting of the summit of the 120-nation group of developing nations as proof that Western efforts to isolate it for its disputed nuclear program have failed.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, representing the P5+1, is to talk with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili "in the coming days," Ashton's spokesman said on Thursday.
Iranian officials have dismissed the UN concerns over their nuclear activities, saying that Parchin was an off-limits military base, that the focus on it was overblown and that suspicions about its atomic program were based on "false" Western intelligence.
The IAEA's quarterly report on Iran said buildings had been demolished and earth removed at the military site the agency wants to inspect, in what Western diplomats see as an effort by Tehran to remove any evidence of illicit nuclear-linked tests.
Based on the report, the number of centrifuges at Fordow, near the holy Muslim city of Qom, about 130 km (80 miles) from Tehran, had more than doubled to 2,140 from 1,064 in May. The new machines were not yet operating, it said.
During his speech at the NAM summit on Thursday, Iran's Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei confirmed that Iran's nuclear program was entirely peaceful. "Our motto is nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none," he said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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