Iranian Nuclear Official to Defend Tehran

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator was ready to tell the world’s security officials gathered in Germany that Iran is working on nuclear power, not weapons.

Ali Larijani’s appearance at the Munich Conference on Security Policy comes as the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had frozen about half of Iran’s technical aid, the BBC reported.

The IAEA said it was complying with U.N. sanctions because of Iran’s continued enrichment of uranium.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the conference that Iran must accept the United Nations’ demands. She said the international community is determined to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, the BBC reported.

What we are talking about here is a very, very sensitive technology, and for that reason we need a high degree of transparency, which Iran has failed to provide, and if Iran does not do so then the alternative for Iran is to slip further into isolation, Merkel said.