Gholam-Reza Khajavi told the Mehr News Agency that the recent IAEA resolution against Iran has no legal premise, stressing that a statement by certain IAEA member states to voice opposition against the resolution had already proved this point.
Khajavi said the fact that the resolution had not been approved by the direct vote of IAEA members shows that it lacks the required legal justifications from the viewpoint of international laws, stressing that the opposition of certain IAEA members against the resolution can prove useful in the next meeting of the agency about Iran’s nuclear activities.
“It is also expected that countries such as Russia and China that have signed the resolution, as well as members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), would adopt a stronger position against U.S. decisions at the agency,” he said.
“Still, this largely depends on the performance of Iran’s foreign diplomacy and U.S. talks with other countries.”
The IAEA Board of Governors last month set an October 31 deadline for Iran to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The resolution submitted by Canada, Japan and Australia also calls on Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
The member states of NAM in a statement after the IAEA meeting stressed that Paragraph 3 of the IAEA resolution contradicted the spirit of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as well as the IAEA policy.
The NAM states had also in an earlier statement unanimously rejected issuing a resolution that Iran is not committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to refer Iran's case to the Security Council.
Khajavi stressed that every country under international regulations has a right to set conditions for accepting a certain treaty and that every country is just equally free to accept a treaty.
“The NPT protocol is no exception to this. However, Iran must not accept the IAEA request to stop its nuclear activities,” he said.
Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday that Iran's conditions for signing the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) may be the same as those of the U.S.
Rafsanjani enunciated in his sermon at Tehran Friday prayers that Iran's signing of the protocol must not jeopardize its security, values and sanctities, and that it must not lead to investigation of issues that are not related to the nuclear energy.
Khajavi said Iran should also ask the IAEA to provide guarantees before signing the NPT protocol that it protects the data it obtains from Iran’s nuclear sites and keep them away from the access of countries such as the U.S. that support some 50 percent of the agency’s funds.
The Islamic Republic is already a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but the IAEA is refusing to provide Iran with the nuclear expertise that it is entitled to receive according to the terms of the NPT.
Iran says that before signing the additional protocol to the NPT it needs to receive guarantees that the sanctions imposed by the West are removed and that the Islamic Republic will be provided with nuclear technology to satisfy its energy needs.
Iran’s resistance to sign the protocol is misused by the U.S. that is waging a black propaganda against Iran’s nuclear energy programs.
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