Tehran, YJC. Iran’s Ambassador to the IAEA says Iran is not going to negotiate its defense industry.
Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the International Atomic
Energy Agency Reza Najafi speaking in a conference on the 11th
administration’s nuclear policy progress on Monday said "Following the policies
it announced, the 11th administration has emphasized cooperation on
the international level with countries, international organizations, and
negotiations with great powers as an operational measure.”
Pointing to recent talks with the IAEA he said "In the first
step we have managed to prove to the agency that the exploding-bridgewire
detonators, which are one of the main accusations, have been used for peaceful purposes
in Iran.”
"In a press conference Amano stated that Iran has presented
documents and information and these detonators are used in the oil and gas
industry which is something common in international industries of oil and gas,”
he added.
He further pointed out that some of the demands made by the
IAEA are "irrational and we cannot accept them.”
Najafi stated "The missile program is our red line. Both in
talks with 5+1 and talks with the agency we have announced that we will not
enter into these topics and defense industries are our red line. We will follow
on the cooperation path, though, and we stress national interests.”