Iran's response to nuclear political games will be firm and serious
Iran-UN, Politics, 9/13/2005

Iran once again declared that its national nuclear program is designed to generate electricity and that it does not aim to produce nuclear arms, IRNA reported today.

IRNA said: "Iran would have opted out of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if it had planned to produce nuclear arms," Iran said in a letter to Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iran forwarded a 131-page reply to the report of IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to the Board of Governors.

The reply has given note-to-note explanations to ElBaradei's report and said that Iran would proceed with cooperation with the UN specialized agency.

"Some exaggerations have been made in the report of the director general and Iran believes that Iranian nuclear program is being treated with political considerations rather than a technical approach which the UN specialized agency is expected to take," Iran said.

"A brief look at Mr. ElBaradei's report to Board of Governors indicated that the UN Agency has been influenced by a political propaganda campaign against Iranian nuclear program. It is easy to reach such a conclusion from legal and technical aspects of director-general's report," the letter said.

"The UN Agency is expected to do its work in a technical manner, but, Iranian nuclear program has been politicized in order to divert attention of the international community from the immediate and serious security concerns as a result of violation of article VI of the NPT, existence of the huge number of the nuclear warheads, recent progress in manufacture of new types of nuclear weapons by two Nuclear Weapon States and the last but not the least the potential nuclear threat by Israel, being the only-non-party to NPT in the strategic region of Middle East," the letter said.

Iranian Deputy president and Head of Iran Atomic Energy Organization Gholamreza Aqazadeh said Monday night "Our position with other nations are transparent and there is no reason for sending the case to any other organization other than the IAEA.. there are no legal basis for sending Iran nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council." Aqazadeh warned "otherwise Iran's response would be firm and serious."

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