Iran vows: 'No' to decisions suppressing its nuclear energy rights
Iran-UN, Politics, 11/22/2003

"Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani here on Friday refreshed vows that Iran would not accept any "oppressive" decision coming out of the meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) later in the day," IRNA reported yesterday.

The IRNA report said "Rafsanjani, in a sermon at Tehran Friday prayers, said Iran is waiting to see how much the US can influence the IAEA board meeting, and warned against any imprudent decision by the agency regarding Iran`s nuclear energy program."

The report said "The next few hours are the hours of trial. We are waiting to see how much the US can impose its own inhuman and colonial views on the board through threat, coercion and bribing," he said. "The ball is now in their (IAEA) ground... If they do bad, the things will be then out of our control, and I hope they take no illogical decision because no oppressive decision can ever deprive Iran from its due rights."

The IAEA admitted this week "we have no proof to date that Iran's past undeclared activities have been linked to a nuclear weapons program."

Rafsanjani was quoted by IRNA saying that "Iran has shown good cooperation with the IAEA toward its nuclear energy activities, stressing that Europe as well as IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei were exercising good-will toward that issue."

the report said: He added that Iran's performance to foil the propaganda of the US and Israel that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons had been "very prudent and logical," and renewed Iran's positions that it will not give up its rights to exploit the nuclear industry for peaceful purposes.

"The correct thing that was done was that it was proved to the world that there is no evidence that Iran pursuing nuclear weapons in its scientific and technical movement," said Rafsanjani, who is also the chairman of Iran's Expediency Council (EC).

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