TEHRAN, Sept 29 (AFP):Iran on Saturday called on world powers to support Tehran's agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog to resolve questions over its nuclear progamme.
"Supporting the agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran must continue by all sides so that this mission is finalised," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the state IRNA news agency.
He was reacting to a decision by major powers to wait for November reports by IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana before deciding on whether to push for a third round of sanctions against Tehran.
Iran and the IAEA agreed on a timetable last month for Tehran to provide answers to outstanding questions over its nuclear programme, which the West suspects is aimed at developing atomic weapons.
"In fact there was no logical reason to take any other line given Iran-IAEA agreements," Mottaki said of the decision by permanent UN Security Council members-Britain, China, France, United States and Russia-plus Germany.
The IAEA has been probing Iran's programme for the past four years but has so far failed to conclude whether it is peaceful or not.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at generating energy and peaceful purposes.
It is under two sets of UN sanctions for pressing on with uranium enrichment, the process which can make nuclear fuel as well as the fissile core of an atom bomb.
Iran asks world powers to wait for IAEA report
FE Team | Published: September 30, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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