Iran clarified Tuesday that its offer of allowing "full supervision" of its atomic program in return for lifting of sanctions doesn't include snap checks by United Nations inspectors of its nuclear units.
Iran
clarified Tuesday that its offer of allowing "full supervision" of
its atomic program in return for lifting of sanctions doesn't include snap
checks by United Nations inspectors of its nuclear units.
Monday,
Iran
nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi Davani told the ISNA news agency that
Tehran
was
prepared to give the International Atomic Energy Agency "full
supervision" of its controversial nuclear program for five years if U.N.
sanctions are lifted.
Tuesday, ISNA asked him whether this offer includes the implementation of the
additional protocol of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which calls for
tougher and snap inspections of atomic activities of its signatories.
Abbasi Davani said the offer doesn't include such inspections of Iran's nuclear
facilities.
"We will not accept any more obligations," he told ISNA.
"We have always had full cooperation with the agency," Abbasi Davani
said, adding that Iran's cooperation is "within the standards and
regulations" of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
The Iranian proposal was immediately rejected Monday as insufficient by the
European Union, which said the Islamic republic must first re-establish
confidence for any sanctions to be lifted.
"Iran still has to comply with its international obligations, despite
today's announcement," Michael Mann, spokesman for E.U. foreign policy
chief Catherine Ashton, told AFP.
Ashton has made a "concrete proposal" to Iran aimed at building
confidence over the aims of its atomic program, Mann said. "Unfortunately,
so far,
Iran
hasn't taken up this offer to enter into meaningful talks."
"Existing UNSC [U.N. Security Council] resolutions foresee the lifting of
sanctions once confidence has been re-established," he said.
Iran
is
targeted by four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions over its refusal to
suspend uranium enrichment amid fears in the West that it seeks to build a
nuclear bomb--a charge it vehemently denies.
Much of
Iran
's
nuclear activities are already under the control of the IAEA, including uranium
enrichment--a process which can produce the fuel for a nuclear reactor and also
the fissile material for an atomic warhead.
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