IAEA obligated to provide nuclear fuel to Iran, Rafsanjani to Swedish envoy
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN – The International Atomic Energy Agency is legally obliged to provide nuclear fuel with a purity of 20 percent for a research reactor in Tehran, Rafsanjani, chairman of the Expediency Council, told the Swedish ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday.

Rafsanjani also told the ambassador, Magnus Wernstedt, whose country holds the European Union rotating presidency, that the West’s opposition to Iran’s nuclear program is politically motivated because the West, particularly the United States, knows that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons.

Rafsanjani said Iran has proven through its behavior that it hates weapons of mass destruction. For example, he said when Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran in the 1980s Iran had no belief that it should retaliate.

The former president said certain Western countries provided chemical materials for Saddam Hussein’s regime to build chemical weapons.

On the Western criticism of human rights in Iran, he said the U.S. and European countries have established a better relationship with countries in the Middle East which have so far not held in an election in their country.

Ambassador Magnus Wernstedt asked Rafsanjani’s view about President Obama’s change slogan in which Rafsanjani answered the Obama administration, by ordering an allocation of 55 million dollars to the opponents of the Islamic Republic and moving to seize properties tied to the Alavi Foundation, is showing that it is following the policies pursued by the previous administrations and “even worse” than them.

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