Iran ready to pay price to safeguard nuclear rights: MP
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/12/2007

Iran's Head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi said today that the Iran is ready to pay the price for safeguarding its nuclear rights.

He expressed hope that ongoing negotiations between Iran and the Europe on the nuclear issue will lead to mutual understanding within the framework of the legal rights of Iran.

Iran's Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani said today that Iran's nuclear standoff should be resolved through a new rational initiatives. Larijani told reporters after his meeting with the visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh that repetition of the old statements does help resolve the issue. "We are now witnessing emergence of a rational attitude in dealing with Iran's nuclear issue and we believe that the talks should be pursued on a logical framework to bear fruitful results," he said.

A US government official who is highly knowledgeable about Iranian nuclear issues says Iran is moving ahead to try and master the uranium enrichment process, a capability that could enable Iran to have a nuclear weapon sometime between 2010 and 2015. Ambassador Gregory Schulte, who represents the United States in Vienna, Austria, at the International Atomic Energy Agency, says Iran's efforts to expand its enrichment capability would be useful in building a nuclear bomb, but are not needed for civil nuclear energy purposes.

He told USINFO June 11 that although the Iranians are moving ahead "at a very determined rate" in defiance of international requirements, there is still time before they will have the chance to produce nuclear weapons. "We want to use that time to achieve a diplomatic solution," Schulte said.

Schulte, who also serves as the US permanent representative to the United Nations Mission in Vienna, said Iran could acquire a nuclear weapon within the next decade, at the earliest, leaving a number of years yet to secure a diplomatic settlement. "It gives us time for diplomacy, but not time for complacency," he said as members of the IAEA Board of Governors gathered in mid-June to consider the Iranian situation.

Iran's Deputy Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Javad Vaeedi said yesterday Iran's approach in the nuclear negotiation is to be part of the solution rather part of the problem.

After a long meeting with Deputy EU foreign policy chief Robert Cooper, Vaeedi told Iranian reporters in Vienna, "We are looking for a solution to decrease distances in the nuclear negotiations." He also expressed hope that negotiation goes toward a real and constructive direction, so the two sides can find a solution.

Concerning current ideas in Larijani-Solana negotiation, Vaeedi said, "New ideas are being followed to achieve understandable situation." Deputy secretary of SNSC said, "Confidence building is a two- sided process adding the first condition is to keep distance from language of force and threat." Vaeedi continued, "We do not expect negotiation to make miracles, because the issue is too complicated to have such an expectation." On recent stances of Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA chief, concerning Iran's nuclear activity, Vaeedi said, "His stance is to avoid non-diplomatic ways and the necessity of reaching an understanding with a realistic approach."

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said yesterday that time is now over for negotiations over suspension of uranium enrichment.

He said, "Time is over for talks on uranium enrichment now, and therefore the right path for our talks is focusing on ensuring over not breaching commitments."

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said on Monday that the nations are endeavoring to produce nuclear energy while the Western governments fear from losing their monopoly over the civilian technology.

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