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TEHRAN, Jan 17 (KUNA) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on
Thursday that his country had cooperated fully with the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA).
Nejad added in statements carried by the Iranian news agency that the
report of the Director General of the IAEA Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, as well as
the report of the American Intelligence proved that all that was said in the
past about the existence of a nuclear arms programme in Iran was "unfounded."
Nejad considered the position of the west particularly the American one
about the Iranian nuclear file as "political and is not based on legal grounds.
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He added that Iran has become a nuclear power despite all western attempts
which were aimed at depriving the Iranian people of their legitimate rights.
The Iranian president stressed that "Iran's nuclear dossier from our point
of view has been closed".
Nejad said that the Security Council had issued two resolutions against
Iran because of its nuclear program in accordance with wrong information,
adding that "the time has come for the Security Council to correct its
erroneous decisions towards Iran".
The president reaffirmed that "the Iranian people will not renounce its
rights and will not be frightened by the resolutions of major countries." (end)
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