IAEA aware of Iran’s peaceful nuclear purpose – commentator
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is already aware that Iran is pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, a commentator tells Press TV.
Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm, a political commentator from Tehran, said in an interview with Press TV that “so far the IAEA has not found any kind of clue in order to say that Iran is pursuing a military drive (in its nuclear activities),” adding that Iran has been “very compliant” with the IAEA rules.
“The bone of contention is not Iran’s nuclear issue. They already know that Iran has not deviated from the correct path … but they want to extend these inspections to Iran’s missile industry and defense industries and that is our red line,” the commentator stated.
Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi has said the Islamic Republic will not allow any out-of-the-ordinary inspections of the country’s nuclear facilities.
Commenting on the future of nuclear talks, Khoshcheshm said Iran and the P5+1 will come up with a “middle way” solution which is like a “freeze-for-freeze” plan.
Iran and the P5+1 -- the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany -- are in talks to work out a final deal aimed at ending the longstanding standoff over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program before November 24.
Sources close to the Iranian negotiating team say the main stumbling block in the way of resolving the Western dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy program remains to be the removal of all the bans imposed on the country, and not the number of centrifuges or the level of uranium enrichment.
Tehran wants the sanctions entirely lifted while Washington, under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby, insists that at least the UN-imposed sanctions should remain in place.
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