By IRNA,
Dubai : International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said in Dubai that there is no evidence for Iran’s military nuclear program.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, he further hoped that direct talks between Iran and the US would begin after President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
“Direct talks between Iran and the US will contribute a lot to solve problems,” he noted.
Referring implicitly to the political nature of problems in Iran’s nuclear dossier, he said that the country’s nuclear case should be solved only through diplomacy and nothing else.
Investigations made in Iraq in 2003 revealed that the country had no weapons of mass destruction but releasing the report did not prevent military invasion on the Arab country, he said.
ElBaradei said that IAEA inspectors have been probing Iran’s nuclear installations since 2003 and found no evidence proving the US claim about military nuclear program.
He also called on Syria to be transparent with IAEA so that it can form its assessment.
He further noted that nuclear issue is not the main problem facing the world; rather poverty, under-development, financial crisis and AIDS are of more significance.
All the countries are expected to adopt unified policy to counter the challenges, he said, in reference to transparency of nuclear program and open-up to the UN nuclear agency.