MP: Parliament drafting plan against IAEA resolution
An Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday that Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee is drafting a plan as a countermeasure against a recent resolution passed at the UN nuclear agency against Iran.
Spokesman for Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Rezaei, told reporters that the committee strongly condemned the resolution as “unlawful”, which was approved by the UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors on Thursday.
The resolution — drafted by France, Germany, Britain and the US — urges Tehran to “without delay” report on its enriched uranium stockpile and facilities damaged in the June aggression by Israel and the US, while omitting any mention of Iran’s longstanding cooperation with the agency.
Rezaei stressed the necessity for a proportionate response from Iran to the resolution.
Iran has already canceled a cooperation agreement recently signed with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Cairo as a goodwill gesture to resolve the nuclear standoff with the West.
“Like the diplomacy which was assaulted by Israel and the US in June, the Cairo Agreement has been killed by the US and the E3,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned the resolution as a “blatant misuse of the international body” to advance Western countries’ objectives and said Iran is considering more countermeasures against the illegal resolution.