Iran's parliament may limit the U.N. watchdog's inspections of the country's nuclear sites following a new U.N. resolution against Tehran over its atomic program, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Tuesday.
"Iran had generously allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency access to prove its goodwill but soon the level of the agency's access to our nuclear facilities will be revised," Mousa Ghorbani told the state news agency IRNA.
"There are discussions in parliament to apply some new limitations on cooperation with the IAEA," said the conservative lawmaker.
"The issuing of a new resolution by the (U.N.) Security Council has raised the question of how long we should continue a useless cooperation with the agency."
The Security Council Saturday adopted a fifth resolution urging Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, the process at the center of fears about Iran's nuclear program, as the enriched product can be used to make atom bombs.
The IAEA has been investigating Tehran's nuclear activities for the past six years, but has so far been unable to determine whether they are purely peaceful as the government claims.