Iran: threats will never weaken Iranians' will
Iran, Politics, 2/1/2006

Producing nuclear energy for civilian purpose has become a national resolve and the Europeans had better stand by Iran in development projects and not stand against national resolve, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said today.

IRNA said that he told reporters that Iran is strongly attached to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since it both calls for disarmament of nuclear arms and obliges International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help the developing nations acquire nuclear technology for welfare and economic development.

Asked about the visit of Russian and Chinese diplomats to Iran, he said, "The Chinese and Russians friends came to Iran. We held talks with them. They put forward their views to remove the deadlock. We also offered our views and asked them to convey our views to their leaders. We thanked them for looking for a way-out of the current situation and that's all."

Responding to a question whether or not Iran may stop research studies for a single day, he said that there is no wisdom in halting research studies when the UN nuclear agency boosted inspections on Iranian nuclear sites and Iran is currently enforcing the Safeguards Agreement of IAEA.

A reporter asked whether IAEA Board of Governors will follow the lead of the six European states calling for reporting Iran nuclear program to UN Security Council, Larijani said that the six states have damaged the prestige of IAEA Board of Governors with their statement ahead of the Board meeting.

"It is not right from a legal point of view to assign IAEA Board of Governors to report Iran case to Security Council. The member states have the right to put forward their views to Board of Governors not to order them to do this or that," Larijani said.

He said that reporting Iran to Security or referring it to the body are the same and Iranian parliament has required the government to suspend all voluntary actions that Iran has taken for confidence building.

Reporting Iranian case to UN Security Council will force Iran to suspend implementation of Additional Protocol to NPT, said Larijani.

"Reporting Iranian case to UN Security Council will also force Iran to repeal its commitment to Safeguards Agreement of IAEA according to which cameras of UN nuclear agency have been installed on all nuclear sites monitoring them," he added.

Iran's Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said today that if Iran's nuclear case is referred to the United Nations Security Council, the government would be obliged to resume uranium enrichment activities under Iran's law.

Iran's parliament unanimously passed a bill on November 20, 2005, obliging the government to suspend all its voluntary steps taken in the past three years for confidence-building if the IAEA Board of Governors opts to refer Iran's nuclear case to the UNSC.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said threats will never weaken the will of the Iranian nation and government to follow up their legal rights within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

It said in reaction to a Tuesday decision by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to the effect that the Thursday meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should report Iran to the UNSC over its nuclear program. "Iran believes it is possible to patch up differences of views and give response to questions on the country's peaceful nuclear plan in a peaceful manner with no pressures and threats through negotiations and that the sides can still continue their confidence-building measures through logic and understanding.

"It is regretful that countries possessing the biggest arsenals of nuclear weapons are developing and producing new and more complicated weapons instead of building confidence and sticking to the NPT rules. This is while they use (threaten) nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states."

"These states intend to maintain their monopoly on nuclear technology. They intend to deprive other nations of their legal right to use peaceful nuclear energy by misusing international organizations," a statement said.

The ministry stressed, "The statement by Group 5+1 had no legal base and ran counter to the NPT and the IAEA articles of association. "These measures will bear no fruit other than discrediting the IAEA and weakening the role of international accords. The imperative tone of the 5+1 statement violated technical and legal independence of the agency and will harm the rights of member states of the IAEA's Board of Governors and even other members of the Security Council. It showed that a small group of big powers intend to rule the world against the will and determination of nations, governments and the international community."

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