By IRNA
Vienna : The International Atomic Energy Agency verified Iranian nuclear program acknowledging Iran’s statement that the US and its allies have fabricated information to back up claims that Tehran is making nuclear weapons.
The 11-page report said that the UN nuclear watchdog was able to resolve the outstanding issues with Iran.
IAEA said that Tehran has cooperated in other areas of an IAEA probe, leading the agency to put to rest for now suspicions that several past experiments and activities were linked to a weapons program.
Specifically, the report suggested the agency was satisfied with answers provided by Iran on the origin of traces of enriched uranium in a military facility; on experiments with polonium, which can also be used in a weapons program; and on purchases on the nuclear black market.
It said that in those areas information given by Tehran is either consistent with its findings or not inconsistent with its findings, suggesting it was content for now with explanations that these activities were not weapons-related.
Iran’s UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaei said the report clearly attests to the exclusively peaceful nature of the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran, both in the past and at present.
“The report also serves to strongly and unambiguously support my country’s long-standing position that the allegations raised by few powers against the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been entirely groundless,” Khazaei said in a statement.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who drew up the report, said his team had made quite good progress in clarifying the outstanding issues that had to do with Iran’s past nuclear activities.
ElBaradei said Iran explained some of its activities linked by the Americans to a weapons program as work on air bags and for the design of safety belts, according to the report.
The report will be the focus of discussions at an IAEA board report starting March 3.