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Iran Downplays Part of IAEA Nuclear Program Report

IN THIS ISSUE: Iran downplays IAEA report, IAEA cites new info on Iran, nuclear security in Pakistan, U.S.-Libya nuclear deal, Syria and nuclear inspections, Iran, Russia blame pump flaw for atom fuel removal, NK's nuclear resolve, Clinton's remarks at Conference on Disarmament.

Published on March 1, 2011
 

Iran Downplays Part of IAEA Report on its Nuclear Program

Xinhua News

Foreign Minister Salehi

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Sunday that the issue of the alleged studies mentioned in the latest report of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano "lacks any real basis."

Under the term "alleged studies," which is supposedly based on a set of purloined top-secret Iranian military documents, the United States claimed that Iran is covertly pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

In a report issued on Friday by Amano, it said that new information received by IAEA adds to further concerns that Iran has possibly worked on nuclear weapons.

Salehi expressed hope that the issue of the alleged studies would be removed from the next reports of the UN nuclear watchdog about Iran's "peaceful nuclear activities."

He told the official IRNA news agency that the alleged studies is an "unfounded matter" originally brought to the IAEA's report by former chief of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei under the pressures of the western states.

The IAEA Report on Iran is accessible here.     Full Article
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