New Delhi, November 29: BJP today termed as “sensitive” the issue of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution against covert enrichment of uranium by Iran and insisted that the government should take all parties into confidence on the censure, which was supported by India.
“India’s relations with Iran go a long way but this decision has been taken under new and changed circumstances. This is a sensitive matter involving India’s diplomatic interests. The government should take all political parties into confidence on the issue,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
India, along with the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, voted in favour of the new resolution against Iran’s nuclear programme and demanded that it suspends the construction of its uranium enrichment plant at Qom — a site kept secret until recently.
It was revealed by IAEA in September that Iran had been secretly building a second uranium enrichment plant at Fordo, near the holy city of Qom, for the last two years.
The resolution was moved at the meeting of Board of Governors of IAEA in Vienna yesterday.
Though India supported the resolution, it said its passage cannot be the basis of a “renewed punitive approach or new sanctions” against Iran.
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