TEHRAN (IRNA) – As IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei is well aware, Iran and Egypt were the first countries to call for the Middle East to be made a nuclear weapons-free zone, a proposal they presented to the United Nations in the 1970s, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said here on Monday.

"IAEA chief remembers that as an NPT member, Iran has always underlined that it is committed to this treaty," he told IRNA.

Turning to ElBaradei's acknowledgement that Iran has never deviated from peaceful path in its nuclear activities, he said that Iran's nuclear activities have always been transparent.

The spokesman said that unrealistic interpretations and hypotheses on a country's intentions, specially under conditions that there is no cause for concern over Iran's nuclear activities for peaceful purposes, will not contribute to promotion of peace and security in the region.