Iran to halt nuclear agency cooperation if against national interests: Speaker
Iran-UN, Politics, 7/26/2006

Iran regards a package of incentives offered to it on the nuclear issue as an appropriate base for negotiations, an official said today.

Iran's Deputy Secretary of Supreme National Security Council, Gholam-Reza Rahmani Fazli, said "We should first study problems and ambiguities of the proposed package and then give our response. We should prepare ground for negotiations."

On June 6, the European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana offered a package of incentives on behalf of the UN Security Council's five permanent members -- Russia, China, US, UK and France -- plus Germany (Group 5+1) to Iran to settle the dispute over the country's nuclear program.

"We are surprised why senior European and US officials are in such a hurry. How is it possible for them to reach a conclusion during just one session and announce that Iran is not ready to hold talks?" Rahmani Fazli said.

"These are pretexts made by the West. Europeans have a quite political outlook towards Iran's nuclear case and intend to misuse the case in their own interest to achieve their political goals.

"If ambiguities of the proposed package are removed, the two sides can reach a good summing-up at an appropriate time," he added.

He said "The issues of sending Iran's nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, imposing sanctions on Iran, deterrent measures and political and diplomatic pressures are unprincipled and irrational measures adopted by the West.

"We will define and implement necessary policies in accordance with their approaches and attitudes. Iran will show reaction with respect to policies they are going to adopt."

He stressed that Iran would accept just legal cases of the West's offer, saying, "We will not withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but will make decisions based on existing circumstances and necessities of time."

Iran's Majlis speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel yesterday said that once Majlis finds out that continued cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog have no benefit for Iran, it will disapprove it under the present situation and that the parliament will revise its approach to the issue.

"Any type of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) such as continuing NPT membership and cooperation within the framework of the Additional Protocol will depend on Majlis approval," he said, stating that such an approach is just an idea and suggestion, in light of Iran's preference that the nuclear issue should be dealt with up through talks.

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