Iranian Majlis Speaker Larijani: "As An IAEA And NPT Member, Iran Has The Right To Enrich Uranium."

Iranian Majlis Speaker Larijani: "As An IAEA And NPT Member, Iran Has The Right To Enrich Uranium." HT: Memri.

Iranian Majlis Speaker Larijani: The West Set Middle East Ablaze, Has No Right To Discuss Its Security in Nuclear Negotiations

"After the last [round] of negotiations, a few senior Western officials hastened to declare: 'We do not recognize Iran's right to enrich [uranium]'... This, when the issue of Iranian enrichment was noted both in the preamble [to the agreement] and in the [chapter] on the objectives [of the permanent agreement]. 

But the more important point is that [Iran's] right to enrichment does not, in principle, require [the West's] approval. All member states of the IAEA that have also ratified the NPT enjoy this right, even if they do not exercise it...

"Undoubtedly, in negotiations, both sides take measures according to logic and their [particular] capabilities, so as to pay the cheapest price possible. But the astonishing thing is the contradiction between what senior American officials said about enrichment before the negotiations, and after them. 

In oral and written statements, senior American officials recognized Iran's [right to] enrichment, as attested to by persons and existing documents. So why are they lying? Do you wish to run the world with such unreliability? Mr. Obama, it is this [kind of behavior] that causes distrust in the international arena, not Iran's conduct regarding civilian nuclear technology."