TEHRAN – Iran’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, said here on Sunday that Iran has responded to the IAEA questions related to its commitments within the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), adding that Iran will respond to any question that might be raised within this framework.

“According to a Majlis law, we will not allow inspections beyond the NPT, but we have accepted and will continue to accept inspections within the framework of the NPT,” he told the Mehr News Agency.

Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA is transparent, and even when the president announced Iran’s success in enriching uranium, the IAEA inspectors were present at the Natanz enrichment facility monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities, he stated.

On the delay of the visit to Iran of IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards Olli Heinonen, he said that talks between Iranian officials and the IAEA have been continuing in Vienna, adding that the talks were not necessarily supposed to take place in Tehran.

“Our cooperation and negotiations to clear up the remaining ambiguities are continuing,” he pointed out.

Asked about IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei’s next report on Iran, Soltanieh said no date has been set for the delivery of the report and no extraordinary meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors has been called yet.

On Iran’s recent talks with Russian officials in Moscow over a Russian proposal to enrich uranium for Iran, he said that the Islamic Republic has repeatedly declared that it welcomes any initiative that recognizes its rights in regard to uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities.

“We agree to this proposal in principle, but its legal, technical, and financial parameters need to be studied further to eliminate the ambiguities during the next talks,” he pointed out.