Qalibaf rebukes ‘politically motivated’ IAEA resolution against Iran
Iran’s Parliament speaker censured an anti-Iran resolution passed at the United Nations nuclear agency on Thursday, saying that Tehran has activated new centrifuges in response to the agency’s “politically motivated” resolution against the country’s peaceful nuclear program.
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf made the remarks during an open parliamentary session on Sunday, three days after Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted 19 to 3, with 12 abstentions, for the anti-Iran document.
The resolution initiated by the UK, France, Germany and the US, denounced Iran for what it claimed as a “lack of cooperation” with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Qalibaf said that the “unrealistic, politicized, and destructive approach” adopted by the European troika and the United States led to the issuance of the “unjustified and non-consensus” resolution on Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.
“The Islamic Republic’s reciprocal response to the political misuse of the IAEA’s Board of Governors was immediately put on the agenda, and the launching of a series of new and advanced centrifuges began,” he added.
The Parliament speaker also censured the three European states and the US for using Iran’s peaceful nuclear program as an excuse for their illegitimate actions aimed at questioning the IAEA’s credibility and independence, as well as tarnishing the constructive atmosphere in Tehran’s interactions with the agency.