• E-mail
• Print
• Comment
• Font Size
• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Discuss article

Iran Press: Nuclear Chief Says US Dishonesty on Nuclear Issue Clear for Iran

Posted on: Saturday, 8 October 2005, 09:00 CDT

Text of unattributed report: "Ali Larijani: I'm sure the new nuclear approach will succeed." Report by Iranian newspaper Siyasat- e Ruz on 3 October

The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council said: "A very important task that the academics can do to help solve the country's nuclear case is to compile a national document for the country's nuclear industry, which could also have a legal aspect, and no one but academia is up to this task." As Fars News Agency reports, Ali Larijani, who was speaking yesterday afternoon, Sunday, among the representatives of student organizations, university professors and a number of heads of universities about our country's nuclear case, said: "America tells us to relinquish nuclear fuel production, and that they will not only give us nuclear fuel but also build nuclear power plants for us, but this is just a claim that has been proven false before and America's dishonesty has become clear to us." He added: "Before the revolution's victory, the Americans were supposed to build nuclear power plants for Iran and also provide nuclear fuel for us. They also received certain sums of money for this purpose. But after the revolution's victory, they neither returned our money nor fulfilled their obligations."

The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council continued: "Referring to Iran's nuclear activities as a secretive plan is an example of deception by America and the West, because so far we have not carried out any activity against our obligations or the agency's platform." Larijani alluded to the juncture when the discussion about Iran's nuclear case first started and said: "The Americans wanted to put pressure on Iran in the chaotic situation of the days following the 11 September incidents to discourage us from continuing our nuclear activities and achieving nuclear technology."

He provided an overview of the different stages and developments in our country's nuclear case, and said: "In all stages of our talks with the European countries, we insisted on our right to complete possession of nuclear technology and nuclear fuel production. Even in the Paris deal, the Europeans were the ones who propounded the issue of objective guarantees in order to prevent any diversion in our enrichment activities and fuel production programme. And today the Europeans, not Iran, are the ones who have ignored the Paris deal." The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council emphasized: "We are ready to continue the talks and our confidence- building efforts to clarify our activities. However, the new round of talks need to be held within a clear framework, and by observing the necessities of a real negotiation and specifying the limits of confidence-building and clarification; so that we know how long and how far we are supposed to proceed with our confidence-building efforts, and where the questions and demands of the parties negotiating with us will end and come to a conclusion." Larijani said: "Highlighting the issue of referring Iran's nuclear case to the United Nations Security Council is an interesting point that brings the principle of negotiation into question. They tell us let's negotiate; but they say if we don't accept their views in the negotiations, they will send our case to the Security Council. This matter is in conflict with the essence of negotiation."

Regarding the allegations by certain groups and individuals that we must close down our nuclear activities to prevent our country's case from going to the Security Council, or that achieving nuclear technology is not a national demand, he said: "The very moment that we show weakness against the threats, they will achieve their goal. I think the wrong statements that some people in the country have been making over the past couple of years have further emboldened the Americans. The peak of these wrong statements was the triple- urgency bill in the Sixth Majlis for accepting the additional protocol." The secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council said: "The Americans in the process of their surveys and inquiries have realized that achieving nuclear technology is a national and public demand in Iran. So they decided that the best way to confront Iran was to create an internal front to undermine this position; undermining the national aspect of the nuclear case is a betrayal of the country."

Larijani emphasized that achieving nuclear technology was a national and definitive demand, and said: "Even in New York when we brought up the discussion of nuclear technology among the Iranians living there, they unanimously believed that we mustn't retreat so much as one step from this demand. And it is regrettable that some people inside the country send positive signals to the threats of the Americans."

Regarding our country's diplomatic negotiations in the recent session of the Board of Governors, he said: "First of all, we must depend on our own national and domestic capability, but we shouldn't neglect diplomacy as a potential either." The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, who was speaking among the representatives of student organizations, university professors and a number of heads of universities, emphasized: "One of the very important and effective tasks that our academics and elite can do is to compile the nuclear industry's national document, which could have a legal aspect, and no one but academe is up to this task." Larijani said: "In spite of all the clamour surrounding the recent resolution of the Board of Governors, nothing extraordinary happened in Iran. And the Americans should know that if they keep pressuring our country, Iran will have no choice but to use its full capacity to agitate conditions for America and endanger its interests." He added: "I have no doubt that the path we have chosen will be successful. But we mustn't be hasty, and in order to get results from this approach, we need to be patient and act bravely, and determine the framework of the talks. We must demonstrate a manifestation of national solidarity in Iran on this issue, so that we can achieve and maintain nuclear technology."

The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council expressed happiness about the presence of students at this session and said the presence of students showed how much they cared about the country's destiny. He added: "The system will never doubt its right to achieve complete nuclear technology and keep it and will use every possible means to restore its rights. And with your support, we will definitely achieve nuclear technology."

In answer to a question as to how relevant the issue of Iran's withdrawal from the NPT was at the present juncture, Larijani said: "The NPT, as long as its regulations are observed and properly carried out, contains good rights for us. However, if they treat us beyond the terms of this treaty and keep pressuring us, we will certainly reconsider our membership in the NPT."

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

More News in this Category