TEHRAN – A top security official has urged the Europe Union and the IAEA to resist the U.S. pressure and not to “ruin” the recent agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Under the Aug. 21 deal, the IAEA and Tehran agreed on a timetable for addressing the ambiguities about Iran’s nuclear activities. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of developing nations endorsed the deal at a recent gathering of the IAEA 35-nation board of governors.
The IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei has also praised the deal. The agreement is ""an important step in the right direction,"" ElBaradei told a meeting of IAEA Board of Governors that opened Monday in Vienna.
However, European nations have stopped short of endorsing the plan.
Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli, the deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said ElBaradei and the NAM defended Iran’s nuclear transparency in the recent Board of Governors meeting.
He also argued that the European Union’s stance was less harsh in comparison to the previous board meeting.
Asked why Iran has not previously responded to questions by the UN nuclear watchdog, Rahmani-Fazli said “We had never had the intention not to answering (questions) but the problem was that the other side (IAEA) had no plans for its questions.”
He said in the recent deal Iran accepted nothing beyond the IAEA rules and regulations.
The Western powers have been constantly asking Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, answer questions, and to implement the additional protocol to the NPT.
“We put in place enrichment suspension and the additional protocol for two years and answered questions again and again, but we did not receive any proper response,” Rahmani-Fazli told the World of Politics Program on Channel 2 of the IRIB on Thursday night.
He added those questions that had been answered were raised every time.
“This time, in the deal between Iran and the agency it has been agreed that every question will be comprehensively answered and then the issue will be considered closed.”
In this week's meetings, ElBaradei urged the adoption of a ""double timeout"" by Iran and the West. Under that plan, Iran would suspend uranium enrichment and the West would suspend the sanctions it's already imposed.
ElBaradei said such a ""timeout"" would open ""the way to go into a comprehensive negotiation.""
Rahmani-Fazli said at the time when the timeout was first proposed by ElBaradei, the West upped its sanctions against Iran.
“In the current situation, the path to resolve the issue is clear and there is no need for timeout.”
NAM on Tuesday rejected ""interference"" in Iran's nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors.
The United States and its major European allies said the deal diverted attention from UN Security Council demands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment.
""The EU statement was short-sighted..., overly hardline and not helpful,"" said a Vienna diplomat working on the Iran file. ""It's harmful for the IAEA as an institution.""
Iran’s nuclear energy quest is solely for electricity generation, not a front for bomb-making as the U.S. claims, and it is serious about going the extra mile to overcome mistrust