Iran says no concessions on its nuclear programme, a key lawmaker
declared on Sunday amid high geopolitical tensions and ahead of mooted
talks with world powers."The parliament will never allow the
government to go back even one step in its nuclear policy," Aladin
Borujerdi, the head of Iran's parliamentary foreign policy commission,
told the official IRNA news agency.Iran's recent announcements
that is stepping up uranium enrichment and made its own 20-per cent
enriched nuclear fuel showed the country "totally masters nuclear
science," he said."If the P5+1 countries don't accept the
reality of Iran's nuclear abilities, they will suffer from that,"
Borujerdi was quoted as saying.
His comments precede expected talks agreed to by Iran and the P5+1 group of powers -- the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.Iran has formally requested a date and venue for the negotiations, the previous round of which collapsed in Istanbul in January last year.The Islamic republic has been buffeted in recent months by ramped-up Western economic sanctions.It has also been threatened with possible military action against its nuclear facilities by Israel and the United States.
Throughout, Tehran has maintained that its nuclear programme is purely peaceful, denying Western suspicions -- largely echoed in a November report by the International Atomic Energy Agency -- that it was conducting military research towards designing nuclear weapons.
Borujerdi told IRNA that the United States and its allies have seen in recent months that Iran's scientists have managed to make nuclear fuel enriched to 20 per cent, among other achievements.
"Lawmakers expect the (Iranian) nuclear negotiating team to change the situation, to obtain a cancellation of (UN) resolutions (on Iran) and that the Iranian nuclear issue is taken from the Security Council and put back before the governors' board of the International Atomic Energy Agency," he said.Media agecies
His comments precede expected talks agreed to by Iran and the P5+1 group of powers -- the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.Iran has formally requested a date and venue for the negotiations, the previous round of which collapsed in Istanbul in January last year.The Islamic republic has been buffeted in recent months by ramped-up Western economic sanctions.It has also been threatened with possible military action against its nuclear facilities by Israel and the United States.
Throughout, Tehran has maintained that its nuclear programme is purely peaceful, denying Western suspicions -- largely echoed in a November report by the International Atomic Energy Agency -- that it was conducting military research towards designing nuclear weapons.
Borujerdi told IRNA that the United States and its allies have seen in recent months that Iran's scientists have managed to make nuclear fuel enriched to 20 per cent, among other achievements.
"Lawmakers expect the (Iranian) nuclear negotiating team to change the situation, to obtain a cancellation of (UN) resolutions (on Iran) and that the Iranian nuclear issue is taken from the Security Council and put back before the governors' board of the International Atomic Energy Agency," he said.Media agecies
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