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Iran not to end cooperation with IAEA
Jan 7, 2007 - 4:32:17 PM
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Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, had said earlier this week that the current policy by the state was not to end cooperation with the IAEA but to continue within NPT and IAEA regulations.
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By DPA,
[RxPG] Tehran, Jan 7 - Iran will not end its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency -, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Sunday.
'Cutting cooperation with the IAEA is not on the agenda,' Hosseini said in a press briefing here while also stressing Iran's commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -.
His remarks came after the Iranian parliament approved a bill last week obliging the government to revise cooperation with the IAEA as retaliation for the sanctions to be imposed on Iran in line with UN Security Council resolution 1737.
The majority of MPs in parliament are close to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and observers believe that ignoring the parliamentary bill could lead to a rift within the Ahmadinejad faction.
Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, had said earlier this week that the current policy by the state was not to end cooperation with the IAEA but to continue within NPT and IAEA regulations.
Ahmadinejad has called resolution 1737, which imposed sanctions on Iran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, as 'solely a piece of paper with no value at all for Iran', saying that the Islamic state would continue with its nuclear programmes 'despite the Western ballyhoo'.
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