Rafsanjani deplores performance of UN nuclear agency on Iran (Recasting to correct verb concerning technical aspects)

Irna

Chairman of Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have failed to focus on technical aspects of Iranian nuclear program and such an approach, if continued, would harm the other member states of the agency.

He said that Russia could not fulfill its promise and now Bushehr power plant is going to be completed with a five year delay and at the same time, Russia says that it would not supply fuel for the time being.

He complained that IAEA sometimes provided enemies of Iran with pretext to orchestrate scenarios against Iranian nuclear program.

Rafsanjani said that the UN nuclear agency dealt with Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) which admitted trying to produce bomb, with leniency, but, issues anti-Iran resolution while Iranian nuclear program is only civilian.

He criticized the halt to nuclear activities for the past two years for confidence building and said that Iran should have continued with research studies in the past two years too.