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Fars News Agency :: US Seeking to Hijack IAEA to Pressure Iran

US Seeking to Hijack IAEA to Pressure IranTEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Ashgar Soltaniyeh said Washington is hijacking the UN nuclear watchdog for an anti-Iran campaign.
“Today, it was made clear to the Board of Governors that the original documents and even their duplications regarding alleged studies have not been presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency,” Soltaniyeh said on the sidelines of the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on Monday.
During the meeting the IAEA chief had urged the Islamic Republic to be “transparent” and provide the agency with “credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran.” ……………………………The IAEA report confirmed that Iran has managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level ‘less than 5 percent.’ Such a rate is consistent with the construction of a nuclear power plant. Nuclear arms production, meanwhile, requires an enrichment level of above 90 percent.

The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog continues snap inspections of Iranian nuclear sites and has reported that all “declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities.”

Fars News Agency :: US Seeking to Hijack IAEA to Pressure Iran

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September 26, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized