West plays political game on N-program

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the country’s “transparent” nuclear program has been dragged into a “political game” by certain countries.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s peaceful nuclear activity is one of the most transparent cases in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” Mottaki said on Wednesday in a meeting with his Armenian counterpart.

“Unfortunately, such a transparent case has been dragged into the political games of certain countries which always repeat their claims against Iran,” Mottaki said in reference to recent remarks made by IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, on Iran’s nuclear program.

On Monday, Amano said the IAEA was looking into a report by the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), claiming that the agency did not have complete information about the extent of Iran’s nuclear program.

MKO claimed last week that it had evidence of a new secret uranium enrichment site under a mountain near the city of Qazvin — about 120 kilometers west of Tehran — which was about 85 percent complete.

Mottaki said that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is carried out under the supervision of the IAEA.

“Compared to other IAEA member states, Iran has been the most cooperative with the agency in the past years,” the Iranian foreign minister said, adding that at least 29 IAEA reports have confirmed the non-diversion of Tehran’s nuclear program from its peaceful objectives.