Iran's position on its nuclear civil development are non-negotiable
Iran-European Union, Politics, 12/5/2005

Iran's Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said on Monday that Iran has decided to wait for specified time for negotiations and confidence building with the international community about nuclear program and would go ahead with enrichment after elapse of this period.

He told reporters that Iranian strategy for confidence building is to ensure no diversion from civilian application of Iranian nuclear program, IRNA reported.

Answering a question about Israeli threat to attack Iran, Larijani said that Iran does not take Israeli rhetoric seriously.

"This is not the first time we hear rhetoric from Israel. They used to make such rhetoric and then calmed down very quickly." "If Netanyahu makes such a mistake, he should tolerate consequences and this will add to Israeli problems. Iraq had been weakened when Israel attacked it." "On the other hand, situation in Israel is not in a way to allow Israelis to follow the theory of 'from Nile to Euphrates'. They well know that how the theory worked in the past several years. Every day is passing by they are forced to back down on their unjust demands.

They were forced to withdraw from Gaza and those who have so many problems can only embark on rhetoric," Larijani said.

Elaborating on why Iran could not agree to uranium enrichment taking place outside the country, he said that the nuclear technology is expensive and it is not right to set up a plant outside the country and then transfer it to Iran after several years.

Secretary of Supreme Security Council Ali Larijani said on Monday that Iran will welcome any proposal for enrichment of uranium inside Iran.

He told reporters that Iran will not object to any proposal for enrichment of uranium inside Iran. Russia or any other country would be welcomed if they put forward such an offer.

"Of course, the proposal should aim to resolve the problem and not to erase entirety of the problem itself," he said, a reference to European call to dismantle nuclear sites.

"The new proposal should respect Iran's right to enrich uranium on its territory and ensure non-Iranian parties that Iranian nuclear program will not be diverted from civilian application," Larijani said.

A reporter asked whether Iran granted access to inspectors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Shian and Lavizan military bases, Larijani said that Iranian cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog is in the context of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Safeguards Agreement of IAEA.

He said that IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei had called for inspection of the two sites and Iran allowed the Agency's inspectors to see them.

"We allowed the inspection to show that Iranian nuclear program is transparent. Otherwise, Iran is obliged to accept the IAEA demands within regulations of the Agency." "The US methodology of propaganda is that every time the Agency planned to hold talks on Iranian nuclear program, the US came up with new allegations and asked the UN Agency to examine them. Iran will no longer agree to such a practice in the future." Larijani said here Monday nuclear talks between Iran and Europe should be held with no preconditions, warning that setting any conditions can harm the negotiations.

"No conditions have been announced yet for resumption of negotiations," Larijani told domestic and foreign reporters.

"It seems negotiations at expert level will start within the next two weeks." In response to a question on the Europeans' demand that enrichment be carried out outside Iran while Tehran believes fuel cycle should be conducted inside the country, he said, "The place of enrichment will not be the topic of of our talks.

"What will be raised during the talks is that enrichment process in Iran will not be diverted from its peaceful path. We have no words on enrichment."

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