Tehran - Iran on Saturday said that despite the new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution, the Islamic country would remain obligated under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The IAEA in Vienna on Friday adopted a resolution censuring Iran for secretly building the new Fordo nuclear enrichment plant near the capital Tehran, which the international community fears to be a site for pursuing secret military programmes.
"We will not make any hasty reactions and remain obliged to NPT regulations," Iran's IAEA ambassador Ali-Asghar Soltanieh told the news network Khabar.
"This resolution will however have no impacts on our nuclear work and not make us suspend our nuclear programmes for even one second," the Iranian nuclear envoy added.
Soltanieh reiterated that the IAEA resolution has pushed Iran to limit its additional voluntary cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, saying future cooperation with the IAEA would solely be under NPT regulations.
Under NPT regulations, the IAEA inspections in Iran would be limited and required Tehran's approval in advance.
"The IAEA resolution shows that they (IAEA and world powers) have not learned their lessons from their past," Soltanieh said, referring to Iran's view that resolutions and sanctions have not worked in the past and just increased the country's nuclear know-how.
The Iranian IAEA envoy however hoped that the world powers would adopt the path of constructive cooperation rather than confrontation.
Soltanieh had on Friday blamed the IAEA for not appreciating Iran's goodwill and voluntary cooperation in the recent years and said the latest resolution would just further complicate the process nuclear dispute process.
Iran has constantly stressed that its nuclear programmes were peaceful and civil and constantly rejected Western concern that the Islamic state was after producing nuclear weapons.
