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Iran warns IAEA ahead of key meeting
 Iran's top nuclear negotiator issued a blunt warning to the UN atomic watchdog on Tuesday, saying more pressure on the Tehran over its controversial nuclear activities would have âconsequences.â The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is to meet from November 24, with Iran running the risk of being sent to the UN Security Council amid suspicions it is using a nuclear energy drive as a cover for weapons development. But Ali Larijani, quoted by the ISNA news agency, said a Security Council referral âwould have consequences on Iran's cooperation, and would not be good for Iran's cooperation.â âIf they put too much pressure on Iran, Iran will be forced to work differently,â he said in the latest of a string of warnings to the IAEA and its 35-nation board of governors. Iran, which maintains it only wants to make electricity, has already threatened that if its case is sent to New York it would limit access to IAEA inspectors and abandon a freeze on uranium enrichment. Enrichment is a process used to make reactor fuel, but it can also be diverted to make the core of a nuclear bomb. Larijani also said that if the IAEA âbases its work on legal and technical considerations,â the next report by agency director Mohammad Al Baradei âwill be positiveâ for Tehran. Posted by: Fred 2005-11-16 |
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