TEHRAN – A number of lawmakers in separate interviews with the IRNA news agency have dismissed the IAEA director’s claims that Iran is refusing to fully cooperate with UN inspectors seeking to determine the nature of its nuclear activities, saying Amano’s remarks are politically motivated and baseless.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, has recently said that Iran had failed to provide the required cooperation to confirm that all its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes.
Amano is in New York to present the IAEA’s annual report on its global activities to the 192-nation assembly.
Amano’s remarks are “politically motivated”, MP Kazem Jalali said, adding they were intended to “please” world powers.
“Islamic Republic of Iran has fully cooperated with the IAEA,” said Jalali, the spokesman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.
Jalali also described Amano’s remarks as “inexpert, unfair, and too broad”.
Esmail Kosari, deputy chairman of the parliamentary security committee, said the IAEA director is under the influence of the West and can not act “independently”.
“Unfortunately, Amano does not make any decision independently, and is obedient to the influential countries like the United States, Britain, and France,” Kosari noted.
MP Hossein Ebrahimi also called Amano’s remarks “baseless and untrue”, saying IAEA inspectors are currently monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
“Their inspectors are active in Iran and they are overseeing Iran’s nuclear activities with their cameras,” Ebrahimi explained.
“The Unites States and (other) hegemonic powers have started playing a political game and induce the IAEA director to level accusations at Iran, because they have understood that their resolutions and sanctions are ineffective,” he said.
On Monday, Iran’s deputy permanent representative at the United Nations, Eshagh al-Habib, called Amano’s statements “incorrect and misleading.”
Al-Habib also said the agency is caving in to Western pressure to find fault with Iran.
Al-Habib said the fact the IAEA has reported “so much details about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities proves that the agency has the full access to all nuclear materials in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“It seems that the recent reports of the agency have been prepared under pressure from the outside,” al-Habib said.
The diplomat insisted that Tehran was “determined to exercise the inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and to build on their own scientific advances ... including (the nuclear) fuel cycle.”