Envoy: IAEA Report Indicates Peaceful Nature of Iran’s N. Program

Iran’s Residing Representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh underscored that the recent report released by the IAEA on Iran approves the peaceful nature and transparency of the country’s nuclear activities.

“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 Asqar Soltaniyeh told press tv on Wednesday.

The Iranian official made the remarks in response to a new IAEA quarterly report on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

Soltaniyeh stressed that IAEA inspectors’ failure to find any diversion in Iran’s nuclear activities “is in fact a very clear document to prove that all those allegations against Iran are forged and fabricated.”

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.