By IANS,
Tehran : Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Sunday said the Iranian lawmakers will soon start reviewing the country’s future cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
After the IAEA’s “hostile” nuclear report against Iran, the parliament believes that “it is necessary to review Iran’s cooperation with the Agency,” Larijani said when addressing a parliament session here, reported Xinhua, citing the semi-official Fars news agency.
“The Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission is required to start studying the issue in cooperation with other bodies and report back the results,” Larijani was quoted as saying.
After the IAEA released the report claiming that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons, the Iranian parliament has come to the conclusion that cooperating or not cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog has no impact on its decisions on Iran, he added.
Fars reported Saturday that the Iranian parliament was to discuss the country’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) after the IAEA released the “biased” report against Iran.
Mohammad-Esmail Kowsari, vice chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told Fars on Saturday that the commission would “study Iran’s withdrawal from the NPT” after a relevant demand by a major political faction of the Iranian university students.
The IAEA said on Tuesday in its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program that “credible” evidence showed that Iran had been seeking to obtain nuclear weapons.
Tehran has completely rejected the report, calling it ” unbalanced, unprofessional and politically-motivated”.