TEHRAN – Supreme National Security Council Deputy Secretary Javad Vaeedi on Sunday dismissed the U.S. allegation that Iran had conducted studies on the production of nuclear weapons as a pretext to “impose a new war”.

Addressing a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, International Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director Ollie Heinonen claimed that Iran had been conducting weaponization studies including clandestine uranium enrichment.
“These alleged documents were submitted to the IAEA after Iran and the agency concluded their work on Feb. 15… the U.S. has already imposed a war on the world through these alleged studies and today it is continuing the same policy,” Vaeedi told the International Conference on Iran’s Peaceful Nuclear Program and Activities: Modality of Cooperation with the IAEA.
He described Resolution 1803 against Iran as “absolutely political” and criticized the UN Security Council for serving the political interests of the United States.
The UN Security Council on March 3 issued a third sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear activities.
The sanctions resolution calls for more travel and financial curbs on Iranian individuals and companies and makes some restrictions mandatory. It also expands a previous partial ban on trade in items with both civilian and military uses to cover sales of all such technology to Iran.
The resolution came shortly after IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei’s report on February 22 clearly confirmed the non-diversion of Iran’s nuclear program toward weapons production, Vaeedi argued.
“The message of this action was that the basis for the decision was not the agency’s report and the issue was not in the least technical and legal but absolutely political.”
However he said tougher sanctions will not provoke Iran to break the international law and stop cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Despite the West’s efforts to represent Iran’s nuclear issue as highly ambiguous the IAEA raised only six questions about the country’s activities namely plutonium, P-1 and P-2 centrifuge machines, the source of uranium contamination found at Tehran University, metal uranium, and the Gachin mine, Vaeedi stated.
He said according to a modality plan agreed by Iran and the IAEA in August 2007, Iran developed full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to address the remaining questions and managed to clear all ambiguities surrounding its atomic efforts.
Vaeedi accused the U.S. of using Iran’s nuclear issue to undermine the independence of the Islamic system.
“The nuclear issue is the symbol of independence and progress which the U.S. is absolutely apposed to. We are not seeking adventurism but the U.S. has put the doctrine of elimination on the agenda and wants this government, which claims independence, to shut down its nuclear program by its own hands to show the world that independence without the U.S. will not continue to exist.”
----------------- Resolution 1803 will not affect Iran’s nuclear program
Political analyst Mohsen Jalilvand dismissed the latest UN Security Council resolution against Iran as “ineffective”.
“The new UN Security Council resolution is in line with the 5+1 group’s (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) political confrontation with Iran and will not influence our country’s nuclear activities,” Jalilvand told the Mehr News Agency.
Since Iran has vowed no retreat from its inalienable right to access peaceful nuclear technology, the 5+1 group has no option but to enter into negotiations with the Islamic Republic and the new resolution also urges UN foreign policy chief Javier Solana to continue talks with Iranian diplomats, he observed.
He criticized the 15-nation Security Council for disregarding the February 22 report by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei which had vindicated the Islamic Republic by reaffirming the civilian nature of its nuclear program.
“There is a paradox between Iran and the Security Council. Iran has focused on technical issues and the plan agreed with the International Atomic Energy Agency but the Security Council is still beating the drum of political confrontation with Iran,” Jalilvand lamented