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Iran Pledges to Continue Cooperating With Nuke Probe
An Iranian official pledged yesterday that his country would continue to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency, in the wake of an agency report that Tehran misrepresented details of its nuclear program in the past, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, June 16). Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Akhondzadeh said the agency “can be certain that Iran has no reason, whatsoever, to withhold related information.” “Bearing that in mind, we will continue to do whatever we can, and search wherever possible, to convey any other information that may surface to the agency,” he said (see related GSN story, today). Akhondzadeh added that Tehran would maintain its freeze on uranium enrichment activities for the duration of its negotiations with the European Union (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, June 16). Iran yesterday, however, dismissed demands by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac that the country abandon its uranium enrichment program, AFP reported. “We will not renounce our right,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi. “These declarations are contrary to the discussions between Iran and the European Union,” he said. “We are now waiting for the suggestions of the Europeans including the acknowledgment of the right of Iran to enrich uranium,” he said (Agence France-Presse/The Tocqueville Connection, June 16).
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