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Rouhani: All Iran nuclear activities peaceful, civilian

mahla — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:49:04 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Stating that Iran never seeks nuclear weapons, President Hassan Rouhani said that all the country’s nuclear activities are peaceful and civilian.

“If the West looks at the morals and beliefs that exist in our country, they will find that they should not be worried and sensitive about our nuclear technology, but because they themselves have used this technology [inappropriately], they think that we will do the same,” said President Rouhani in the inauguration and unveiling ceremony of the nuclear achievements of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on Saturday.

“All Iran’s nuclear activities are peaceful and civilian,” noted Rouhani, adding, “As the Leader has stated on several occasions, in our jurisprudence, it is forbidden to pursue a weapon that can be a great danger to a large society. If they consider this issue, they will understand that Iran is not looking for these works.”

Elsewhere in his remark, Rouhani pointed to the important measures taken during his administration in the field of nuclear, saying, “One of the important effects of the JCPOA was that it completely legalized the nuclear industry in Iran. This was great work done during this period.”

“A chain of 164 IR6 centrifuges was launched today, and this chain is such that it can provide us with 10 times more product than the previous chain. This means that the previous centrifuges were at 1 SWU, and this new series is 10 SWUs,” he added.

“Even today, we have reached the IR 9 centrifuge with the capacity of 50 SWUs in terms of technology,” the President noted.

Rouhani went on to say, “Radiopharmaceuticals are one of the products used for diagnostics and are very important in medicine. Therefore, in this sector, one of the honors of the government during its 8 years of activities is the development of technology in various nuclear fields.”

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IAEA Not a Place for Political Games

reporter 1222 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:12:14 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Rouhani made the remarks in reaction to a plan by the European Union to draft a resolution with the IAEA Board of Governors criticizing Iran for reducing cooperation with the UN nuclear agency.

President Rouhani also responded to a statement made by US President Joe Biden’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman that Washington is willing to develop the scope of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by saying that the JCPOA is a single text agreed upon by the participant states and that Iran will hold no new negotiations on the agreement.

He advised the European countries not to pursue the case, also calling upon the UN nuclear agency not to allow “good and friendly” relations with Iran to be disturbed with such a move.

Reiterating that the agency is “no place for the political game”, Rouhani said, “let us do our technical job with the agency.”

Iran’s nuclear activities are 100 percent peaceful and if there is a little bit of distance from what the agency expects, it is the US fault, the president said.

“They lift the sanctions and there will be immediately warmer relations, and the IAEA inspectors can easily carry out whatever inspection within the framework of law without any kind of problem.”

Referring to US criminal sanctions on Iran over the past three years, Rouhani said that if the new US administration intends to compensate, Iran has left the door open.

The US sanctions have inflicted more than $200 billion on the Iranian economy, Rouhani said, however, noting that Iran has left this for the next.

He said that Iran wants the US to lift the criminal sanctions and then it can rejoin the JCPOA to engage in talks with Iran.

It would benefit no one to waste the time and if the time is wasted and something is postponed, the US will be held accountable, the president said.

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