TEHRAN - Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Saturday that the recent report released about Iran’s nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency director is legally flawed.

The report by Yukiya Amano, which is supposed to be presented to and examined by the IAEA Board of Governors, is a repetition of some past issues, demands and “unfounded accusations”, Kamalvandi stated.

On the claim by Amano that he is unable to confirm that Iran does not have any “undeclared” nuclear activities, Kamalvandi said that this issue is “mutually verifiable” within the framework of the Additional Protocol which Iran is expected to sign in case a final nuclear deal is sealed between Iran and the major powers.

“If we implement the Protocol one day, it means that we provide the agency with access and it cannot claim that there are undeclared activities. But this access is within a defined framework,” he stated.

He added that it has been proven that Iran’s nuclear activities are peaceful and there is no need to reconfirm this fact.

Elsewhere in his remarks, he said that submitting to the IAEA’s excessive demands will lead to demands which legally fall outside the body’s jurisdiction.

He added that asking Iran to suspend its nuclear activities is an example of repetitious demands that have never been accepted by Iran.

He went on to say that an issue that is cited in the report is verifying Iran’s commitments to the agreements that it has signed with the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) and this is something which has been verified in this report and the previous ones.

NA/PA