TEHRAN: Iran said on Tuesday its barring of two nuclear inspectors serves as notice to the chief of the IAEA, but added Tehran was ready for talks with the UN atomic agency as suggested by France.
This action (banning the inspectors from entering Iran) is in reality a regulatory notice to (Yukiya) Amano to be careful so that the agencys inspectors do not violate the international entitys charter, the official news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying in a state television interview.
Amano should manage the agency professionally, he said, referring to the chief of the UN atomic body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). On Monday, Iran announced it was barring two IAEA inspectors from entering the country, accusing them of filing a false report and leaking informationabout Tehran's nuclear programme which the West suspects masks a weapons drive. The Islamic republic says its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful purposes.Irans atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said that Tehran told the IAEA at its latest meeting that the inspectors had filed a totally wrong report and the two be replaced with two other inspectors who can visit the country.
Reducing cooperation with the IAEA will only deepen the worlds concern with respect to its nuclear programme, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in Washington.(Yeah right)
This action (banning the inspectors from entering Iran) is in reality a regulatory notice to (Yukiya) Amano to be careful so that the agencys inspectors do not violate the international entitys charter, the official news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying in a state television interview.
Amano should manage the agency professionally, he said, referring to the chief of the UN atomic body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). On Monday, Iran announced it was barring two IAEA inspectors from entering the country, accusing them of filing a false report and leaking informationabout Tehran's nuclear programme which the West suspects masks a weapons drive. The Islamic republic says its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful purposes.Irans atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said that Tehran told the IAEA at its latest meeting that the inspectors had filed a totally wrong report and the two be replaced with two other inspectors who can visit the country.
Reducing cooperation with the IAEA will only deepen the worlds concern with respect to its nuclear programme, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in Washington.(Yeah right)