In an interview with IRINN, Iran’s Ambassador to IAEA Reza Najafi dismissed the claims that Iran has approved or implemented the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's safeguards agreements and added that even accepted by Iran, no article of the protocol envisions a specific obligation regarding access to the military sites of the signatories, referring to the latest words of Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano said Najafi.
Stressing the technical jurisdiction of the IAEA, Najafi said that the mutual understanding reached in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 2 just obliges the IAEA to measure the actions agreed to be taken and announce the accordance; the IAEA is responsible for supervising the enrichment level and reporting Iran’s accordance with articles of the agreement.
“The previous disagreements are being negotiated and they have to be dealt with”, Najafi added and reassured that “it is a must to normalize Iran’s issue in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and there would be no agreement unless it is done”.
Leaving the decision to lift the sanctions to US Congress was firmly rejected by Iran’s IAEA representative and he called the US administration responsible for implementing the elements of agreement.
In response to a question doubting the IAEA impartiality, he found the recent claims a normal psychological warfare against Iran’s negotiating team occurring usually before the final talks to exert more pressure on Iranian negotiators.
Najafi reaffirmed that the IAEA is responsible for safeguarding the information gained via inspections and called it a demand of many countries that are worried about leakage of security data in the IAEA and acts of espionage and referred to the statement issued two years ago in Tehran insisting on implementation of Iran’s security concerns.