Tehran
Iran has said it would pursue "constructive and comprehensive
interaction" with the UN nuclear watchdog, official IRNA news agency
reported Thursday.
Following the release of a report by the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Wednesday, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy
Organization (IAEO) Mohammed Saeedi told reporters Tehran's relation
with the IAEA would continue in keeping with the objectives of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
He said Iran has provided IAEA necessary access to its nuclear
facilities within the framework of NPT Safeguards Agreement.
He added: "The trend will continue in the future and the IAEA's
inspectors will be able to inspect Iran's installations within the
framework of NPT Safeguards Agreement."
The NPT, which seeks nuclear disarmament and peaceful use of nuclear
power, opened in 1968 for signature. Till date 189 countries have
signed the treaty. The three states which have refused to sign are
India, Israel and Pakistan. North Korea signed the treaty, violated
it and then withdrew.
The NPT Safeguards Agreement requires signatories to follow
safeguards for their civil nuclear facilities appropriate to
individual requirements.
Saeedi said: "From now on IAEA request can be accepted in the
framework of NPT Safeguards Agreement."
IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei in a report to the agency Wednesday
said Tehran has obtained some two tonnes of enriched industrial
uranium since it started refining the nuclear fuel two years ago but
the inspectors could not verify that Tehran has diverted it
activities to a secret weapon programme.
The US and the West suspect that Iran has a secret weapon programme
in the guise of a civilian nuclear plan and have demanded that
Tehran stop enriching uranium.
Enriched uranium is used as fuel for nuclear power plant but at a
higher degree of refining it could also be used for making an atom
bomb.
Iran has demonstrated a capability possessed by only about ten
countries. Because of the characteristics of gas centrifuges, the
Iranian facility could be used for the production of low enriched
uranium for civil purposes or highly enriched uranium for nuclear
weapons, depending on the decision of the government.
The Iranian government has persistently refused to stop its nuclear
activities saying its nuclear programme is civilian in nature and
has been slapped with three sets of mild diplomatic sanctions by the
UN.
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