Report shows Iran is playing by the rules: AEOI director
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano submitted the latest IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program to the agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors on Monday.
Commenting on the report, AEOI Director Ali Akbar Salehi told the ISNA news agency, “This report, like all the previous reports, has emphasized that there is no deviation toward any non-peaceful purposes in Iran’s nuclear activities.”
Therefore, other subjects broached in the report are marginal issues, he added.
In response to the claim made in the report that Iran’s refusal to grant two of the agency’s inspectors access to its nuclear facilities “hampers the inspection process and thereby detracts from the agency’s capability to implement effective and efficient safeguards in Iran,” Salehi said, “The inspection of Iran’s heavy water plant is not within the framework of the comprehensive safeguards agreement between Iran and the agency.”
“I unequivocally declare that if the agency proves to us that it should inspect Iran’s heavy water facilities… I will immediately issue permits for the inspectors,” he added.
Iran, like all IAEA member states, has the right to choose the inspectors who monitor its nuclear facilities, he stated.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Salehi criticized the IAEA for being influenced by the United States’ pressure.
“We believe that, due to political pressure, marginal issues tend to get magnified… and cast a shadow on the main points of the report,” he added.
The IAEA should always be impartial and should make sure that its credibility is not diminished, he noted.More…
IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received a group of Iranian industrialists here on TuesdayIn the meeting, the supreme leader emphasized that Iran needs more work and more work creators, so that it can move towards peaks of prgress
Referring to the importance of work and work creation from the Islamic point of view, Ayatollah Khamenei said that job creation, in addition to creation of wealth, is a ground for using human talents.
Supreme leader said that Iran has turned into a workshop of effort, innovation and initiative nowadays and this is the first step in the process of progress and honor.
Underlining the country’s basic needs for work and work creation, the leader noted that two basic reasons, i.e. ’country’s readiness for econmic jump” and ’enemies’ economic pressures’ prove that Iran needs more work and work creation than ever.
Referring to the sanctions and imposed economic pressures by the hegemonic powers, the supreme leader said that in order to confront such pressures, we should create a ’real resistance economy, which actually means work creation’.
Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the nation and officials will undoubtedly bypass the sanctions and like the past three decades, will continue to make progress.
The supreme leader required the government to do two basic works; precise management of country’s financial resources and improving work
and business atmosphere. More...
ISNA-Iran rejected Persian Gulf Cooperation Council statement on three Iranian islands.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, "the three Iranian islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa will remain in Iranian territory forever."
He rejected claims made on the islands as "repetitious" and "unfounded."
Mehmanparast condemned repetition of claims on three Iranian islands in statements of the council and called it interference in Iran’s domestic affairs.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said, "such repetitious stance will not help settlement of possible misunderstanding on Abu Musa issue."
Foreign Ministers of Persian Gulf Cooperation Council during their meeting in Jeddah on Monday night repeated their claims on UAE sovereignty over the three Iranian islands.
The council groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.