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Iranian lawmakers call for review of cooperation with IAEA
Sunday November 13, 2011 11:43:41 PM,
IANS
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Tehran: Iranian
lawmakers said Sunday that after the recent International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the country's nuclear programme,
the cooperation between the Islmaic Republic and the UN nuclear
watchdog needs to be reviewed.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that the
Iranian lawmakers will soon start reviewing the ways of the
country's future cooperation with the IAEA, reported Xinhua.
After the IAEA's "hostile" nuclear report against Iran, the
parliament believes that "it is necessary to review Iran's
cooperation with the Agency," Larijani said when addressing a
parliament session here Sunday.
"The parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission
is required to start studying the issue in cooperation with other
bodies and report back the results," Larijani was quoted as saying
by the semi-official Fars news agency.
After the IAEA released the report claiming that Iran was seeking
nuclear weapons, the parliament has come to the conclusion that
cooperating or not cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog has no
impact on its decisions on Iran, he added.
Senior lawmaker, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, told Fars on Sunday that
"unfortunately, the agency and the director general follow the
guidelines of the US and performs within a political atmosphere"
instead of within the framework of IAEA regulations and
implementing its obligations.
Therefore, the Commission will discuss the ways of cooperation
with the IAEA in its meeting this week, said Boroujerdi, adding
that "we believe that (Iran's) cooperation with the IAEA needs
reconsideration."
Fars reported Saturday that the Iranian parliament was to discuss
the country's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
(NPT) after the IAEA released the "biased" report against Iran.
Mohammad-Esmail Kowsari, vice chairman of parliament's National
Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told Fars Saturday that
the commission would "study Iran's withdrawal from the NPT" after
a relevant demand by a major political faction of the Iranian
university students.
On Wednesday, Iran's permanent representative to the IAEA Ali-Asghar
Soltanieh said that Iran was likely to reconsider means of its
cooperation with the IAEA.
Soltanieh told state TV that due to the "historical mistake" that
the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano had made over his report on
Iran's nuclear programme, the Islamic Republic is likely to
reconsider the means of cooperation with the IAEA.
Asked about some Iranian lawmakers' views that Iran may walk out
of the NPT, Soltanieh said that Iranian lawmakers may have their
own independent views.
However, the ways of cooperation with the IAEA in the future
depends on the decision of the Islamic Republic's high-ranking
officials, he said.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi criticized
the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on his
country's nuclear program saying that the UN watchdog has
abandoned objectivity on the issue.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday warned the
international community that Iran's nuclear ambitions endanger
"the peace of the entire world."
Netanyahu called on all nations to stop what he referred to as
"Iran's race for nuclear weapons."
The Israeli prime minister called the IAEA report " comprehensive"
and said that it "strengthens the claims by leading countries in
the world and Israel that Iran is systematically developing
nuclear weapons."
The IAEA said on Tuesday in its latest report on Iran's nuclear
programme that "credible" evidence showed that Iran had been
seeking to obtain nuclear weapons.
Tehran has completely rejected the report, calling it "
unbalanced, unprofessional and politically-motivated."
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