Claims about past Iranian nuclear activities void of credibility: Zarif
Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:48PM
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Iran has once again rejected claims about its past nuclear activities,
saying its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
has helped resolve all outstanding issues.

Iran has always declared that the allegations made about Iran’s past nuclear
activities “lack credibility,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
said on Sunday at a joint press conference with his visiting Greek
counterpart Nikos Kotzias in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

“Regarding the ‘roadmap,’ we reached an agreement with the Agency to once
and for all clear these issues out of the way,” he said, referring to the
roadmap signed between Iran and the IAEA on July 14.

The roadmap for “the clarification of past and present outstanding issues”
regarding Iran’s nuclear program was signed by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano and
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi on the same
day that Iran clinched a deal with the P5+1 group of countries in the
Austrian capital of Vienna.

The P5+1 group comprises the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China
and Germany.

Zarif said, “The agency, too, has verified that Iran has answered all the
[relevant] questions and implemented the roadmap.”

Amano is to present a report on the Iranian nuclear program on December 1;
and the IAEA Board of Governors will convene on December 15 to make a final
decision on the issue of the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD)
regarding Iran’s nuclear program based on the report.

Iran says it expects the Board of Governor’s decision to result in the
closure of the “PMD” file. The Islamic Republic says it will not implement
the agreement with the P5+1 unless the “PMD” issue is taken off the agenda.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) listens as his visiting
Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias speaks at a joint press conference in the
Iranian capital of Tehran, November 29, 2015.

Zarif reiterated, “We are certain that the past and present issues should be
firmly closed in the Board of Governors’ resolution, which would likely be
released over the next two to three weeks.”

He also said the case was wrongly being called “possible military
dimensions” since Iran’s nuclear activities have never had any military
dimension.

Zarif also expressed hope that the P5+1 would comply with their obligations
under the agreement reached with Iran, which is dubbed the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Among other things, the agreement obliges the removal of all nuclear-related
economic and financial bans against Iran in exchange for limits applied by
Iran to its nuclear activities.

The Iranian foreign minister further announced that cooperation with Greece
in the field of energy, which had been suspended as a result of the
sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, would be resumed.

Kotzias has traveled to Tehran on a two-day visit to meet with Iranian
officials and attend an economic gathering.