IAEA Report Proves Progress in Peaceful Nuclear Activity: Iran

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Iran's Envoy to the International Atomic Energy's Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, considered on Thursday that a new report by the UN agency validated Iran's progress in its peaceful nuclear activity.
Speaking to Fars News Agency, Soltanieh said the report proved Iran's "technical and scientific success", and showed there was "no evidence of diversion in nuclear material and activities toward military purposes" and that "all the centrifuges and each gram of uranium are under the supervision of the agency."
Soltanieh reiterated the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear energy program, saying that Tehran is determined to continue its cooperation with the IAEA.
"After 10 years of the most robust inspection in the history of the IAEA, no evidence of diversion of nuclear material or nuclear activities to the prohibited purposes have been found and everything remains peaceful," Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told also Press TV in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

The Iranian official made the remarks in response to a new IAEA quarterly report that reflects accusations made by the United States, Israel and some of their allies against the Islamic Republic of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

In its report issued on Wednesday, the IAEA outlined further progress at a reactor under construction at Arak, in central Iran.

Iran and the IAEA have so far held 10 rounds of negotiations over the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program since early 2012.
Tehran maintains that as a committed NPT signatory and a member of the IAEA, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Source: News Agencies