TEHRAN- Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), said on Wednesday that it is not reasonable for Iran to be inspected 10 times more than other countries while the size of Iran’s nuclear facilities is about 2% of the world’s nuclear facilities.

In an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Eslami said that Tehran has good cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

He also noted that at least 120 inspectors of the Agency are accepted and actively working within Iran whereas some are rejected which is totally Iran’s rights.

The AEOI head added that Tehran keeps an eye on the performance of inspectors which is its right whether to accept or reject some of them.    

“The decision to reject some does not mean Iran fails to cooperate with the Agency,” Eslami averred, adding, “We cooperate with the Agency and such cooperation continues daily, but some inspectors may be rejected over their performance, this is normal and common.”

Referring to his meeting with the IAEA director during his trip to Vienna, Islami stated, “The meeting with Mr. Grossi was so friendly and was done in a normal atmosphere because our cooperation with the Agency is more important than the cooperation of any other country.”

At the conclusion, he stressed, “Tehran is facing the highest possible daily inspection of nuclear facilities. If we want to determine the size of our facilities, it is about 2% of nuclear facilities worldwide.”

“The inspection operations that the Agency conducts in Iran are about 25% of the inspection operations that it conducts around the world, it is not logical that we are inspected more than 10 times by other countries,” he complained.

Heading a delegation to Vienna, Eslami attended the 67th Regular Session of the IAEA General Conference.

In another meeting between Eslami and the Brazilian delegation in Vienna, the two sides underscored the need to expand bilateral cooperation in different areas of peaceful nuclear technology.

Given Iran and Brazil’s diverse nuclear technologies and their extensive history of collaboration in numerous industries, there are good reasons to strengthen bilateral ties in a number of nuclear-related areas.

Iran and Brazil, two members of the BRICS group of emerging economies, have similar views on the value of multilateralism and the need to combat unilateralism.