TEHRAN – An expert on nuclear issues says the deal reached between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency has brought technical and legal discussions over the Iranian nuclear dossier to the surface.

Parviz Esmaeili argues that achieving the nuclear deal after two rounds of sanctions resolutions under the Chapter 7 of the UN Security Council was a “very great” success for Iran.
Under the Aug. 21 deal, the IAEA and Tehran agreed on a timetable for addressing the ambiguities about Iran’s nuclear activities.
“Iran has succeeded to change the political and security atmosphere over its nuclear issue at the global level and in New York into a technical, legal and reasoning dialogue in the agency and Vienna,” Esmaeili told a nationwide congress of the directors of Basiji teachers union hosted by the Martyr Beheshti Teacher Training Center in Mashhad on Sunday.
He said in this cooperation deal the IAEA has been tasked to normalize its dealings with Iran if the ambiguities are cleared up and return Iran’s nuclear dossier from the Security Council to the IAEA Board of Governors. Moreover, the agency should immediately make up its past behavior and give technical assistance to Iran as a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
In an interview with reporters on Friday at his Vienna office the IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei rebuffed Western critics of the Iran nuclear deal as “back-seat drivers” and accused U.S. media of a campaign to discredit him.
Moreover, ElBaradei called criticism of the IAEA’s Iran inspection plans “disingenuous.”
Esmaeili said the clash between ElBaradei and the United States is “unprecedented” to the extent that ElBaradei has called the U.S. officials “disingenuous.”
Nuclear technology belongs to no particular group
Parviz Esmaeili says achievements in nuclear technology belongs to the Islamic Revolution and Velayat-e Faqih (the rule of supreme jurisprudent) and no person, group or government has right to “monopolize” it for itself.
“Before presidential election in the summer of the 2005 the stamps on nuclear equipment were removed and we restarted the work. Thus access to nuclear technology has been a national matter.”
Quoting Dr. Etemad, the founder and first director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Esmaeili said, “Dr. Etemad who was even to take over as the IAEA director before Hans Blix has said on that particular situation and with all support to the Shah regime by the U.S. and Europe I couldn’t even imagine that Iran could stand on its own foot in nuclear technology and need no help from others.”
Referring to a statement by Supreme Leader who recently said “we will gain our nation’s right through wisdom and an artful act” the director of the Tehran Times newspaper and Mehr News Agency said he is quite sure that this wisdom and artfulness has been embedded in the Leader’s decisions all through the time.
For example, he said, extreme views have been raised in the previous and current administrations and nuclear teams but the views have been moderated by Leader’s insightfulness so that today ElBaradei has announced that Iran has reached to an industrial stage in nuclear technology.