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Iran's Speaker Says IAEA Resolution Has No Legal Basis

Posted on: Sunday, 14 August 2005, 06:00 CDT

Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA web site

Tehran, 14 Aug: Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel said here Sunday [14 August] the recent UN atomic watchdog resolution against Iran's nuclear programme has no legal basis and is politically- motivated.

Haddad-Adel was commenting at the open session of the Majlis on the recent resolution tabled by the EU3 (Germany, Britain, and France) and adopted by the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"This resolution is politically motivated because it has been adopted under the US pressure," said the speaker.

"The United States regards the Zionist regime, which owns hundreds of nuclear warheads and causes insecurity in the region, as its ally. It (the Zionist regime) is going on with its work freely without facing any threats," the speaker said.

The IAEA resolution urges Iran to re-establish full suspension of all enrichment related activities, including the production of feed material, through tests or production at Esfahan's Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), on the same voluntary basis as requested in previous board resolutions.

It also calls on Iran to permit the director-general to re- instate the seals that have been removed at the facility.

"The Iranian nation will not tolerate such an imposition and the Majlis has included the nation's demand regarding

the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the law.

"We are both ready to continue cooperation with the agency to achieve the objective guarantee and are resolute to use our legitimate right to use nuclear know-how," Haddad-Adel said.

The speaker added, "We recommend Europe not to follow the United States and to use the language of logic in negotiations instead of that of threat and intimidation."

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

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