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IAEA Chief: Assessments should not Deter Materialization of Countries' N. Rights
2008-11-25 (Tuesday), FARS News
TEHRAN (FNA)- International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei focusing on Iran and Syria's nuclear programs said Monday at IAEA's Technical Committee that materializing countries' rights cannot be blocked while other issues are under scrutiny.

The UN nuclear watchdog head issued an oral declaration at Monday morning session of the committee that was convened to survey the technical cooperation projects among IAEA member countries after a declaration issued by the EU, Canada and the United States in which they had asked for imposing further restrictions against Iran and Syria.

According to the Islamic republic news agency, ElBaradei said that both the Iranian and the Syrian nuclear programs are fully within the framework of the legal and technical specifications of the IAEA and, safeguard measures and treaties, adding that there is no legal basis for disapproving of them.

The Secretary General of the IAEA further emphasized in his oral declaration that technical cooperation is the main axis of the IAEA's activities and cannot be put at stake resorting to accusations and speculations.

Focusing on Syria's status, ElBaradei said that stand taking towards Syria is under survey but that would not block the path for the IAEA's technical cooperation with Damascus in its nuclear program.

The IAEA chief added that the golden rule is that everyone is innocent, unless it is proved they are guilty and therefore, it would be quite illogical and irrational to deprive countries of their absolute rights merely because there are certain surveys underway.

Pointing out that the IAEA's letter of association clearly points out the penalties for different violations, he said that it is like the case in 1981 that Israel was deprived of technical cooperation of the IAEA in accordance with its Article 19 after its air attack against Iraq's Ozirak Nuclear Reactor.

ElBaradei further emphasized, "Therefore, no country can be deprived of the IAEA's technical cooperation outside the barriers of the IAEA rules and regulations."

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's illegitimate calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.

Iran insists that it should continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.

Iran currently suffers from an electricity shortage that has forced the country into adopting a rationing program by scheduling power outages - of up to two hours a day - across both urban and rural areas.

Iran plans to construct additional nuclear power plants to provide for the electricity needs of its growing population.

The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.

Washington's push for additional UN penalties contradicts a recent report by 16 US intelligence bodies that endorsed the civilian nature of Iran's programs. Following the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and similar reports by the IAEA head - one in November and the other one in February - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran, any effort to impose further sanctions on Iran seems to be completely irrational.

The February report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, praised Iran's cooperation in clearing up all of the past questions over its nuclear program, vindicating Iran's nuclear program and leaving no justification for any new UN sanctions.

The UN nuclear watchdog has so far carried out at least 14 surprise inspections of Iran's nuclear sites so far, but found nothing to support West's allegations.

Also in another report to the 35-nation Board of Governors, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed "the non-diversion" of nuclear material in Iran and added that the agency had found no "components of a nuclear weapon" or "related nuclear physics studies" in the country.

The IAEA report confirmed that Iran has managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level "less than 5 percent". Such a rate is consistent with the construction of a nuclear power plant. Nuclear arms production, meanwhile, requires an enrichment level of above 90 percent.

The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog continues snap inspections of Iranian nuclear sites and has reported that all "declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities."

Mohammed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently said that Iran remains far from acquiring capabilities to develop nuclear weapons as it is still lacking the key components to produce an atomic weapon.

"They do not have even the nuclear material, the raw unenriched uranium to develop one nuclear weapon if they decide to do so," said the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.

Many world nations have called the UN Security Council pressure against Iran unjustified, especially in the wake of recent IAEA reports, stressing that Tehran's case should be normalized and returned to the UN nuclear watchdog due to the Islamic Republic's increased cooperation with the agency.

©2006 Fars News Agency

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2007-07-13Initial Benchmark Assessment Report
2007-07-09Interview transcript: David Miliband
2007-09-02Iraq and the "Bush doctrine" of pre-emptive self-defence
2007-09-07Understanding the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Walt-Mearsheimer Claim
2007-09-09It's the Demography, Stupid
2007-09-09No Refuge Here: Iraqis Flee, but Where?
2007-09-09Waiting for the general (and a miracle)
2007-08-21Iran, IAEA resume talks on nuclear dispute
2007-08-24The Challenge of Islam
2007-08-29Making America Safer by Defeating Extremists in the Middle East
2007-08-27Sarkozy Says He's Willing to Back Turkey-EU Talks (Update1)
2007-08-27The al-Qadhafi gamble
2007-08-27Sarkozy calls for troop exit from Iraq
2007-09-18The Clock Is Set For Iranian Nuclear Activities
2007-09-17Chirac: Nuclear Response to Terrorism Is Possible
2007-09-16Israelis ‘blew apart Syrian nuclear cache’ -- Secret raid on Korean shipment
2007-09-16A tale of two dictatorships: The links between North Korea and Syria