After meeting with his Hungarian counterpart, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif showed up for a press conference and answered the questions raised by correspondents.
In response to a question asked by Mehr News Agency’s reporter about letting IAEA inspectors into military sites including Parchin military complex as an enforcement of the IAEA's Additional Protocol to the NPT, Zarif restated Iran’s approach to international relations was based on mutual respect and protection of national interests and rejected speculations that a unique version of law would be implemented for Iran as it should be treated like other countries bound to international regulations.
Zarif called the issue a psychological warfare by some westerners to deal with pressure lobbies and repeated the response given by other Iranian officials.
On condition of a deal signed, and in prospect of acceptance of the IAEA's Additional Protocol, as it is in practice in 124 countries, it would be put into practice in Iran the same way, with no additional access, Iran’s FM reiterated.
Iranian official had already said that Iran could allow access to its non-nuclear sites under 'special conditions,' and such 'coordinated' inspections would be aimed at sampling in surrounding areas.
Last week, Amano claimed that a nuclear agreement being worked on by Iran and the 5+1 countries would give the IAEA experts the right to push for access to Iranian military sites.
Four days ago, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi had told IRIB, “first of all, the Islamic Republic of Iran has neither approved nor implemented the Additional Protocol yet; secondly, no article of the protocol envisions a specific obligation regarding access to the military sites of the signatories."