Mottaki: Iran attaches no value to UNSC nuclear resolution
Iran-UN, Politics, 8/16/2006

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today said that the resolution issued by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Iran's nuclear activities is illegal, political and therefore of no value to Iranians.

He made the remark in response to a question on the resolution on Iran's nuclear issue which was raised by a reporter after his meeting with Malian Foreign Minister Mokhtar Ouan.

Mottaki noted that the United Nations should also be answerable to its abstention of taking action and thus endangering the global peace and security in case of Israel's war on Lebanon as well as its illegal and political issuance of an unfair resolution against Iran.

"The 33-day silence of the UNSC on Lebanon due to the influence of the big powers having a say in the United Nations Security Council has left a shameful spot on the record of its performance.

"The UNSC resolution against Iran was issued 21 days before the deadline for submission of Iran's response to Europe's proposal, while the one on Lebanon was issued 21 days after Israel's attack on Lebanon," he added.

Mottaki raised the question as to, "Why the UNSC issued a hasty resolution on Iran's nuclear issue, but took time and made a delay to issue the one about the Zionist regime's aggression on Lebanon. The Iranian nation has its own principled approach to the issue and will not withdraw from its inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under any condition."

"By issuing such a resolution against Iran, the UNSC is responsible for the loss of our trust in it," he added.

Mottaki said "negotiations that will lead to enforcement of Iran's rights and removal of Europe's concerns over Iran's peaceful nuclear program will be the most effective ways of solving the dispute." Mottaki made clear Iran would "never renounce its inalienable rights under whatever circumstances." An informed source at Iran's Foreign Ministry today dismissed as "inaccurate" a report in sections of the media which quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying Iran is ready to hold talks on suspension of enrichment.

"Mottaki had instead said that we see no logic in suspension; and suspension of enrichment is not acceptable by Iran," said the source in an interview with IRNA today.

The source further quoted Mottaki as saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to prove in talks with foreign parties that the suspension of enrichment is bound to no logic.

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani yesterday said that Iran was not contemplating withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Larijani said the NPT provided a good framework for resolving nuclear problems in the contemporary world although "it is not implemented well." He said the fact that the treaty is not consistently implemented does not necessarily mean that Iran would reject it. "Iran is a responsible member of the international community and respects international laws, rules and regulations just as it insists on enforcement of its rights within these regulations," he said.

Asked to comment on the United Nations Security Council resolution obliging Iran to suspend uranium enrichment by Aug 31 or face tougher action, Larijani said Tehran's nuclear policies will continue unafffected. "Iran's nuclear case is not so complicated that it cannot be resolved by negotiations," Larijani said.

He added that Iranian authorities insist the nuclear dispute can still be resolved through negotiations and on reasonable grounds "although some certain states are pushing for other ways." He cautioned that pressure and threats by the West of a possible imposition of sanctions would not resolve the dispute but could only push Tehran to review its nuclear policy. "If they are intent on depriving the nation of its right, we will review our policy," Larijani stressed.

Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani today stressed that Iran's peaceful nuclear research will continue. Rafsanjani told German Ambassador to Tehran Baron Paul Von Maltzahn that talks on Iran's peaceful nuclear program should not be limited to generalities, should be free from any publicity and be held in a suitable atmosphere dominated by wisdom. "To show peaceful nature of our nuclear programs, we have had all types of cooperation, including allowing short notice and intrusive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency but due to the US intervention, western states failed to hide their ill intentions and by their hasty moves, they threw many obstacles on the way of access to mutual understanding." The Expediency Council chairman said that one cannot block the road to societies' scientific research and development through force and intimidation.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad stressed today that Iran will not give up its right to full nuclear fuel cycle. Speaking at a public gathering in this northwestern city, he said those who think they can deprive Iran of its right to peaceful nuclear technology are on the wrong track. He said "I declare to the world that Iran is able to achieve further breakthroughs given the efforts and determination of its people and youth," stressing the right of Iran to acquire nuclear know-how.

Also, Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that if the UN Security Council takes another step to violate the inalienable right of the Iranian nation to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, there will be no reason to continue IAEA inspections in Iran

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