IAEA report asserts transparency of Iran N-work: Official

Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says the agency's recent report on Iran’s nuclear program verifies Tehran’s “full transparency” in its nuclear program.  

Addressing a meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors on Wednesday, Reza Najafi said the report shows the country’s goodwill and strong determination to reach further agreements with the UN nuclear agency.

On March 2, the IAEA once again verified lack of any diversion toward non-peaceful purposes in Iran’s declared nuclear material.

“Concerning safeguards implementation in Iran, the agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement,” IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in an address to the agency’s Board of Governors in the Austrian capital city of Vienna on Monday.

Amano said Iran still needed to provide explanations that will enable the IAEA to clarify two outstanding practical measures.

Najafi further rejected as “false and baseless” claims about the country’s Marivan site, saying that Iran is waiting for the agency’s response to investigate allegations of experiments on explosives there.

On November 20, 2014, Najafi said Iran will, on a “voluntarily basis,” give the Vienna-based IAEA access to the Marivan site, located more than 700 kilometers (434 miles) west of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

On December 11, 2014, the IAEA claimed that the offer does not help address the agency's concerns pertaining to the issue of alleged high-explosive experiments at the site.

An IAEA report in 2011 claimed that it had information indicating large-scale high-explosive experiments were conducted at the site.

A team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog, headed by Tero Varjoranta, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, is due in Tehran later in the month for technical talks.

The last technical meeting between the two sides was held in November.

Iran says it has granted the IAEA access to sites which the agency claims need to be investigated in order to clarify the outstanding issues.

The Islamic Republic has time and again emphasized its readiness for full cooperation with the IAEA.

Separately, Iran and the P5+1 group - Russia, China, France, Britain, the United States and Germany – are negotiating to narrow their differences over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program ahead of a July 1 deadline.

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