TEHRAN (Mehr News agency) – A political analyst said here Monday that the IAEA does not have the right to restrict Iran’s peaceful nuclear programs according to its bylaws.

Davoud Hermidas Bavand told the Mehr News Agency that every country is authorized to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, adding that this has not only been stated in international resolutions but also in IAEA bylaws.

“It is IAEA’s duty to provide nuclear technology to non-atomic states,” Bavand said.

He said that there are two duties in IAEA laws: auxiliary and supervisory, meaning that the countries are assisted to gain access to peaceful nuclear technology while they are prevented from using it for military purposes.

Bavand said that the pressure and restriction put on Iran from Western countries are politically motivated, adding that the U.S. has weakened Iran’s position in the Persian Gulf.

Highlighting the fact that international pressure would not lead to signing the additional protocol, the analyst said that this kind of pressure would continue against Iran under any pretexts whatsoever. “Iran’s policy of détente led to EU constructive negotiations with Tehran and that was soon followed by the willingness of neighboring countries to boost ties with Iran.” “Iran’s neighbors are dependent upon the extraterritorial powers and whenever Iran’s ties with them are strained, neighboring countries tend to move away too.”

Bavand said that signing the additional protocol would not be the end of the problems. “If we had developed access to nuclear weapons, our quitting the NPT would not have been important because the framework of talks would have been different,” he said.

Bavand added that Washington’s objective is to forward Iran’s nuclear case to the Security Council and given the position of the Western and industrial countries toward Iran, it would not have a good ending.

He said that Iran can not depend on member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) because they all sided with the U.S. in the war against Iraq.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the analyst said that Iran should sign the additional protocol only by receiving a series of preconditions.