Manouchehr Mottaki Nuclear Quotations

If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.

We do not accept global nuclear 'apartheid' and scientific 'apartheid'.

We would like to enjoy the right like Japan to have nuclear technology, of course for peaceful purposes.

We would like to enjoy rights like Japan in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

We do not want anything more than our rights stated in the Nonproliferation Treaty, and we cannot accept anything beyond the regulations of the treaty and nuclear agency.

They try, of course, to justify their illegal and discriminatory approach under the guise of the nonproliferation concern, the concern that we all share. The biased, exaggerated and unjustified propaganda is being disseminated around the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

They could not find evidence which shows that Iran has diverted from its peaceful purposes of nuclear activities in Iran.

If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isn't it useful for other countries? We do not accept global nuclear and scientific 'apartheid'.

Iran also, like Japan, enjoys its right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. We are against nuclear weapons.

Iran stresses restoration of its right to access nuclear technology and prefers to make use of internationally recognized mechanisms and benefit from its membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.