PMD case to be closed by mid-December

Hamid Baeidinejad told in an interview to Iran’s state TV broadcaster IRIB that in IAEA’s report to the Board of Governors in recent meeting in Vienna and Yukiya Amano’s recent statement as well, some issues were raised which was expected and provided a summary of the Agency’s general frameworks and views.

“Mr. Amano had said in the report that the final report will not be a gray report; since it could not be so either, as Iran had completely cooperated with the IAEA and the report should reflect this unprecedented level of cooperation; however, Amano did say that it would not be a totally white report; this is not surprising, since in a fully complicated case which lasted 12 years would not explain fully all issues raised against Iran and which we believe was a negative aspect of the developments; in November 2011 report, the IAEA raised the PMD of Iran’s nuclear program, effectively leveling a long queue of allegations against Iran,” he told IRIB. “It is not feasible altogether to address and answer all claims made in the report, which was hollow enough in targeting Iran’s military and defense section, which Iran would theoretically debunk all those claims as well.”

“A second cause is that Iran would not, according to national conveniences, give access to the IAEA inspectors to help answer all questions, and the IAEA would not be expected to fully provide answers in a report with any length; this accounts for what Mr. Amano had said about the whiteness of the report,” Baeidinejad asserted.

On the question of whether the IAEA would depict a full picture of PMD or whether the case would remain open, deputy-FM believed that the case would not remain forever; “according to an agreement with the IAEA in the roadmap, we committed ourselves to provide information which would help depict a full picture of the issue, which in turn would help the Agency to address and answer all past concerns; this evaluation by the IAEA will provide it with an ultimate assessment to solve present and past issues,” he hoped.

Baeidinejad invested much hope on the possibility that the December 15 meeting would be really a final meeting; “we hope that the IAEA report provides ultimate assessment of Iran’s nuclear program which would present itself with assurances that all questions have found their answers. This would be sold to the international community as tenable evaluation,” he said.

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