Iran said on Saturday the U.N. atomic watchdog had confirmed its nuclear program was peaceful and vowed to resist political pressure to change it while insisting it would continue enriching uranium.
"Fortunately the current IAEA report has been more positive than the earlier ones due to the new approach of the Islamic republic," the head of Iran's nuclear energy organization Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by state television's news website as saying.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Friday said Iran had slowed its expansion of uranium enrichment and met some demands for transparency but added that allegations Tehran had researched how to build atom bombs looked credible.
Not even close to the Iranian claim.
The IAEA report will form the basis for talks on Sept. 2 of six major powers to look into harsher U.N. sanctions against Iran over its enrichment of uranium which the West fears is intended for making nuclear weapons.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] With Iran's parliament evaluating cabinet nominees for a vote of confidence, the president urges lawmakers to pass their judgment based on a general trust in the nominees.
"It is my humble, brotherly demand from Majlis to trust their friend and brother and leave the issue of Cabinet's efficiency to the president ... [they should only] examine the general competence [of the ministers]," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a pre-sermon speech to Friday prayer's worshippers in Tehran University.
Referring to the issue of a nightly raid on Tehran University dormitories on June 14, which was among controversial incidents in Iran's post-vote frenzy, President Ahmadinejad said, "The attack on (Tehran) University dorm and certain mistreatments in detention centers were foul deeds."
President Ahmadinejad added, however, that these act "were parts of the enemy's plot and were carried out by 'coup' elements and today we have clear evidence of the matter."
The Iranian president said the country's "security, military and intelligence forces are in the clear regarding such evil acts. Basij forces were beaten up in the streets with self-sacrifice."
President Ahmadinejad called on the country's security and judicial authorities for a severe punishment of those behind the post-election unrest that followed the June 12 vote.
"I call upon security and judicial officials to decisively and mercilessly deal with those who committed inhumane acts in the guise of friends [of the establishment] ... since they inflicted damage on the people and tarnished the image of the establishment, security and police forces."
He went further to ask for a second favor, calling on the authorities to administer justice in dealing with those who "orchestrated and provoked" the unrest and instead treat those deceived in the course of the election with "Islamic compassion".
President Ahmadinejad said that Britain's foreign secretary had predicted the demise of the Iranian state in the aftermath of the June presidential election.
"One of the foreign ministers of friendly countries told us that when I asked the Old Colonialism's (United Kingdom) foreign secretary why they interfered in Iran's affairs, he answered that 'this time the time was up for the Islamic Republic system, and this time we have worked out everything'," Ahmadinejad said Friday.
"The whole world knows that in Iran, elections are fundamental matters, and, contrary to common democracies of the world, they are not a sham or previously arranged, but, with the presence and supervision of the people," he added.
The president said that unfortunately some were deceived by the enemy's plots and played a role in their scenario and in the course of such events "some civilians were hurt and some were killed and this is the most unfair treatment of the Iranian nation and the healthy election".
Ahmadinejad said accusing the government and the establishment of "lying and fraud" is a well-recognized method of "psychological warfare."
He added that "despite countless claims they have failed to provide any evidence that undermines the result of the election."
[Iran Press TV Latest] As reports claim that the United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean weapons to Iran, an Iranian diplomatic source moves to deny. "Reports about the seizure of a ship in the UAE have been fabricated by Zionist media outlets in an attempt to influence the outcome of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency [on Iran's nuclear activities]," an informed political source said on Saturday.
"Now that Iran has the best level of cooperation with the IAEA, certain Western media outlets, which are influenced by the Zionist lobby, fabricate news to highlight normal relations between different countries," the source added.
The Financial Times reported that the ship was seized "some weeks ago," and identified some of the armaments as basic weaponry, including rocket-propelled grenades.
The arms had been falsely labeled as "machine parts," the
Financial Times report added.
"It would be better for us to not waste our time with such childish games designed by Israel," the Iranian source said.
In its latest report on Iran on Friday, the IAEA confirmed that the country is improving its cooperation with the agency while continuing to enrich uranium despite UNSC resolutions.
The IAEA report said that 'following repeated requests' by the agency, the UN body had been granted access to the heavy water reactor at Arak in central Iran.
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Gotta say one thing for the Iranians. Their bald faced lies put even the North Koreans to shame.
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United Nations inspectors are analyzing further evidence taken from a nuclear research plant in Syria's capital Damascus where unexplained uranium traces were found, the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Friday.
But the International Atomic Energy Agency said Syria was still blocking follow-up access to the desert site of what U.S. intelligence reports said was a nascent, North Korean-designed nuclear reactor meant to yield atomic bomb fuel, before Israel bombed it to pieces in 2007.
In June, the Vienna-based IAEA said particles of processed uranium showed up in swipe samples taken by inspectors at the research reactor in Damascus and that it was checking for a link to traces retrieved from the bombed Dair Alzour site.
The IAEA said on Friday it carried out an inventory verification check at the Damascus Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) in July, collecting environmental samples of what Syria said was the source of the uranium particles.
The samples were now being analyzed with the results likely to be ready by November.
U.S. analysts have said the IAEA's findings raised the question of whether Syria used some natural uranium intended for the alleged reactor at Dair Alzour for experiments applicable to learning how to separate out plutonium from spent nuclear fuel.
Syria's only declared nuclear site is the Damascus research reactor and, unlike Iran, it has no known nuclear energy-generating capacity.
Not anymore, at least.
Syria has said that the uranium traces at Dair Alzour came with Israeli munitions used in the strike and that Israel's target was a conventional military building.
Damascus denies hiding anything from the IAEA. But the agency says Syria is withholding documentation and blocking access that inspectors need to clarify the case.
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Iran said on Saturday the U.N. atomic watchdog had confirmed its nuclear program was peaceful and vowed to resist political pressure to change it while insisting it would continue enriching uranium.
[Iran Press TV Latest] As reports claim that the United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean weapons to Iran, an Iranian diplomatic source moves to deny. "Reports about the seizure of a ship in the UAE have been fabricated by Zionist media outlets in an attempt to influence the outcome of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency [on Iran's nuclear activities]," an informed political source said on Saturday. 
United Nations inspectors are analyzing further evidence taken from a nuclear research plant in Syria's capital Damascus where unexplained uranium traces were found, the UN's nuclear watchdog said on Friday. 
