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Sunday, September 20, 2015
Iran’s Rouhani to IAEA head: Inspect us fairly
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with IAEA chief Yukiya Amano, telling him that he expects the nuclear watchdog to treat Iran fairly while implementing an oversight regime.
He also says he hopes the UN agency will help Tehran advance scientifically.
“We hope that by acting upon its responsibilities, the IAEA would move more in the next few months to help the scientific progress of countries, including Iran,” Rouhani says, according to the Fars news agency.
President: #Iran expects #IAEA to remain fair when monitoring the implementation of N. deal.http://t.co/oYp4h7Bc3d pic.twitter.com/quDx7R2sjb
— Fars News Agency (@EnglishFars) September 20, 2015
He also says IAEA inspections until now have shown Iran’s nuclear program to be peaceful.
“Fortunately, the truth about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities in the past few years has been proved by the IAEA supervisions and snap inspections and it has been emphasized that Iran has never had any diversion in its peaceful program,” he says.
IAEA inspections have until now been hampered by Iranian refusal to open up certain sites where suspected covert nuclear activities have taken place.
Amano is in Iran to discuss the implementation of a secret roadmap meant to solve those issues, though critics have pointed to faults in some parts of the agreements between Iran and the IAEA that have come to light.
The Times of Israel Community.