Tehran, September 28: With few days ahead of a planned meeting between Iran and the West, a senior Iranian lawmaker urges the major world powers to set its proposals as the framework of the talks.
“If the US President [Barack Obama] and other members of the P5+1 really want to break the deadlock, they should set Iran’s package of proposals as the framework for the negotiations,” Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told Press TV.
After Iran presented its new package of proposals to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — Russia, China, Britain, France and the US — plus Germany (P5+1), Tehran and the six major powers agreed to hold wide-ranging discussions on global issues as well as Iran’s rifts with some Western countries on October 1 in Geneva.
Iran faces pressure to halt its nuclear enrichment activities, as some Western countries, under pressure from the US and Israel, claim that its program is aimed at building a nuclear bomb.
Tehran, however, has consistently denied seeking nuclear weapons and has been pushing for the dismantling of all weapons of mass destruction across the globe.
Iran says that major powers particularly the US, Britain and France have and continue to deceive the world nations by violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty articles of the last 40 years.
Boroujerdi pointed to possible outcomes of Thursday talks and said, “If members of the six countries pay heed to Iran’s package of proposals, chances are high for an agreement.”
“However, the meeting will bear no results, if they (the six powers) insist on their false allegations (against Iran’s nuclear program),” he added.
The developments come after the US accused Iran of “deception” over a newly-announced under construction nuclear plant.
Iran, in line with its policy of nuclear transparency, Tehran send a leeter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)announcing the construction of a second enrichment plant in a letter to the UN nuclear watchdog on September 21. The new plant is due to produce enriched uranium up to 5 percent.
The letter was sent 12 months before the agency’s regulations oblige its members states to inform of new developments.
Document 153 of Agency regulations, obliges member states to inform the body of the existence of enrichment plants only “six” months before the introduction of nuclear materials into the facility.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has earlier reiterated that the plant was perfectly legal and open to inspection by the UN nuclear watchdog.
—–Agencies