Iran: Enemies cannot justify mistakes committed in the name of IAEA, UN SC
Iran-UN, Politics, 4/26/2006

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said that enemies cannot justify their wrong decisions to the detriment of Iran by invoking the authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and United Nations Security Council.

President Ahmadinejad made the remarks at a joint press conference with the visiting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir prior to the latter's departure for the central city of Isfahan.

"Wrong decisions (of the enemies) that violate our rights cannot be justified by invoking the name of the Security Council or the IAEA," he said.

The IAEA, an agency who's role is supposed to be technical and is seen to have been greatly tainted by politics, is supposed to report on Friday to the UN Security Council on Iran's compliance. In the past similar events, the agency and other UN agencies were given evidence that turned out to be fake and false regarding allegations by the US against Iraq, to justify attacks on Iraq. The evidence at the time included allegation that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger, and other evidence that the US gave to the UN Security Council on Iraqi mobile biological labs, all proved to be wrong, with some support that this evidence was fed to UN agencies intentionally to mislead and promote the US agenda that was intent on attacking Iraq. Accumulating evidence shows support for the argument that UN agencies who are supposed to protect the small countries' rights from the major powers, do exactly the opposite, because of the reliance of these UN agencies on the superpowers for technical and financial and political support.

"Access to nuclear technology is a right of the Iranian nation. We seek peace and tranquility for all nations but will never renounce our legal and inalienable rights," Ahmadinejad declared.

"Iran is the sole country whose nuclear activities are completely transparent. We are ready to hold talks to prove there has been no diversion in our peaceful nuclear activities," he added.

He reminded that "over the past 30 years of membership in the IAEA, Iran has fulfilled all its duties under the treaty and are currently moving within the IAEA framework." The Iranian president argued that in accordance with provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the IAEA has the legal obligation to support Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, help it obtain the technology it needs, and respect its rights.

"But the agency neither provided help to Iran nor defended our rights.. We are waiting to see what the IAEA will do for us in return for Iran's fulfillment of its duties," he said.

He said Iran has always expressed interest in cooperating with the agency. Notwithstanding mistakes that may have been committed, "we gave the IAEA another opportunity to change its attitude." "Iran has access to nuclear fuel technology. We are ready to cooperate with those states which have this technology to promote our objective, prevent any diversion in activities and dismantle nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad said.

Ahmadinejad went on to assure that "if international organizations and entities recognize our legal rights, we will respect their decisions." But, contrarily, if their decisions ignore our rights then they will be opposed," he said.

He said Iran's nuclear case will test the performance of international organizations.

"Iran's nuclear dossier will decide whether they are there to implement laws or regulations or defend nations' rights or as tools in the hands of certain bullying powers." He expressed the hope international organizations would come up to their legal obligations so there would be no need for the Islamic Republic of Iran to review its relations with them.

"We hope they will take lessons from the behavior of the Iranian people and accept that today the Islamic Republic of Iran is a nuclear country. This is an undeniable reality.

"We have worked to obtain nuclear knowhow by ourselves. No one gave it to us so that we can say we have now received it. States which have opposed Iran's nuclear program accept this as a fact but want to obtain concessions from Iran through a psychological war," the president concluded.

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