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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Over the past few years, whenever Iran took a positive step, a few countries started to ruin the atmosphere [of Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA], Ali Asghar Soltanieh said after an IAEA briefing on Wednesday.
He described the recent rounds of talks with the IAEA as positive and called on the Board of Governors to support Iran’s cooperation with the UN’s nuclear agency.
On February 21, a high-ranking IAEA delegation arrived in the Iranian capital for negotiations about further cooperation on Iran’s nuclear energy program. The visit was preceded by another trip to Iran by a team of IAEA inspectors on January 29.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano claimed on February 22 that both teams had failed to secure an agreement with Iran over the country’s nuclear energy activities as the Islamic Republic had rejected a request by the inspectors to visit Parchin.
Soltanieh said that Tehran refused to grant the access because no mutually accepted agreement had been reached to allow the inspections.
He said that a framework and modality, which includes the obligations of both parties as well as Iran’s security concerns, will have to be agreed upon before Iran grants IAEA inspectors access to Parchin.
Iran is not obliged to implement the Additional Protocol, which allows more inspections by the IAEA, Soltanieh said, adding that the agency should not make demands that are beyond the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran rejects allegations of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a committed NPT signatory and IAEA member, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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