Iran's parliament approves nuclear program agreement
Iran’s parliament has approved the agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program reached in Switzerland’s Lausanne last week, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
The deal paves the way for a future final agreement envisages that nuclear waste will be removed from the country, Salehi said.
"We agreed that Iran should join the international consortium. Nuclear waste that presents significant ecological threat for Iran and for the world, will be removed from the country and stored at safe places," the Mehr News Agency quoted the AEOI head as saying.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that the Additional Protocol to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must be approved by the parliament before it can be implemented.
"I explained to Western diplomats that Iran is capable of producing an atomic bomb any time it wants. We are stopped not by sanctions under the pressure of which the country is living. We are stopped by the ideology outlined in the fatwa issues by Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei," Zarif said.