Iran Wants IAEA’s “Unjustifiable” Resolutions Terminated
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi called for an end to the whole previous resolutions the UN agency’s Board of Governors has passed against Tehran.
“The (IAEA) Board of Governors’ whole previous resolutions, which are unjustifiable from Iran’s viewpoint and are politically motivated, should be terminated,” Najafi said at a press conference in Vienna.
Elsewhere in his comments, the envoy reiterated that Iran’s doctrine is based upon Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s religious decree banning the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.
However, Najafi added, Iran believes that nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including uranium enrichment, is a common heritage for humanity and could not be monopolized by any country.
The Board of Governors held a meeting in Vienna on Thursday, a few weeks after the IAEA announced that it has received documents from Iran as part of a Roadmap agreement reached earlier between the two sides.
Iran provided the IAEA with its explanation in writing and related documents as agreed in the Roadmap for the clarification of past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program, concluded between the IAEA and the Islamic Republic of Iran on 14 July 2015, a statement by the Agency read.
According to the Roadmap, after receiving Iran's written explanations and related documents, the IAEA will review the information by 15 September 2015, and will submit to Iran questions on any possible ambiguities regarding such information.
The Roadmap was signed on the day when Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) reached a conclusion on a lasting nuclear agreement that would terminate all sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear energy program after coming into force.