Tehran, December 01: Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh says the agency has approved all the projects proposed by Iran.
Soltanieh made the remarks at the end of the annual meeting of the IAEA’s Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee (TACC) in Vienna on Tuesday evening, IRNA reported.
Iran’s envoy to the UN body said that after two days of deliberation on the projects for the application of nuclear energy, the committee approved all the projects proposed by the Islamic Republic to the Vienna-based international agency.
He appreciated the efforts by the committee’s deputy director general, and called for further cooperation for peaceful application of nuclear energy toward the full implementation of the IAEA charter without any political pressure.
The TACC meeting will be followed by the IAEA Board of Governors due to start on December 2 at the IAEA’s headquarters.
Developed jointly by the secretariat and the member states, the IAEA’s Technical Cooperation Program helps transfer nuclear and related technologies for peaceful uses to countries throughout the world.
The latest report by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to the agency’s Board of Governors once again reaffirmed that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful.
“According to the report, all the Iranian nuclear activities, including enrichment, have been under the supervision of the agency [IAEA], and hasn’t been diverted to nuclear weapons production, and it is completely peaceful,” Soltanieh said on November 23.
The report also rejected Western media claims about technical problems in Iran’s enrichment process, underlining that it is progressing under the agency’s supervision.
Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and thus has the right to enrich uranium to produce fuel, and the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence to indicate that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.
——–Agencies