TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday the report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Mohamed ElBaradei shows the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"As predicted, Mr. ElBaradei has reconfirmed that Iran's nuclear activities have not been diverted from peaceful purposes and no military activities have been seen in Iran's nuclear work," Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying.
The report bears such a fact, "although it bears some ambiguities due to the political pressures exerted by certain powers," Mehmanparast told reporters.
Meanwhile, Iran's envoy to the IAEA Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said Tuesday that the latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog proved the West's huge media hype against Iran's second enrichment plant was based on "baseless allegations," the satellite Press TV reported.
"The report confirmed that no centrifuges had been introduced into the facility and that no nuclear material had been used in it," Soltaniyeh was quoted as saying.
In the report on Iran's nuclear program and on its second uranium enrichment facility near Iran's central city of Qom, IAEA said Monday that its inspectors found no centrifuges in the facility. But they found that the plant is "at an advanced state of construction."
The report, however, did not rule out the possibility of other hidden nuclear sites in Iran, reasoning that Iran's belated declaration of the second nuclear site in September "reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities in Iran."
Iran has reiterated that, according to its obligations, it was only required to disclose the site near Qom six months before the introduction of nuclear material.
TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- An senior Iranian lawmaker said on Monday that the country considers purchasing of high grade uraniumas the best option to supply Tehran's research reactor fuel, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"Purchase of uranium enriched to the level of 20 percent is the best option to supply the fuel needed for Tehran's reactor," Iran's parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission spokesman Kazem Jalali was quoted as saying. Full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian president's senior advisor Parviz Davoudi said Monday that Iran favors to receive West's high grade uranium first and then send its domestically enriched low grade uranium abroad, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Should we reach an agreement in our nuclear talks with the West, we would first receive the 20 percent enriched fuel and then send the 3.5 percent fuel abroad," Parviz Davoudi was quoted as saying. Full story
ANKARA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Turkish foreign minister said Turkey has offered Iran a new solution on behalf of the international community to resolve a nuclear standoff between the Muslim neighbor and the West, local newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported Monday.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday on a flight to Spain that Turkey has negotiated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran and the United States and developed a new formula to mend rifts over a draft plan to diffuse the Iranian nuclear issue, said the report. Full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A senior Iranian official said on Sunday that Iran will be the loser if its enriched uranium is exchanged without the imposed sanctions on the country being suspended, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Mohsen Rezaee, former commander of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and currently the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of the Islamic Republic, said that, "In my opinion, the suspension of sanctions by the west is their proper response to build confidence." Full story
ANKARA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's energy minister said Friday Turkey would not say no if asked to store Iran's uranium to help solve the nuclear impasse between its Muslim neighbor and the West, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Asked if Turkey was ok with storing Iran's low-enriched uranium, Taner Yildiz said there had been no such formal requests to Turkeyneither from Iran nor from the United States but that the issue was being discussed, the report said. Full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said that the Islamic Republic will not retreat one step from the nuclear rights of its nation, the local satellite Press TV reported Tuesday.
Jalili said that Iran is now enjoying its full right to peaceful nuclear energy thanks to the country's dynamic and active foreign policy, the report said.Full story
