GENEVA, Oct 9 (KUNA) -- Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Adel Hadad said Tuesday that Gulf countries have no reason to be concerned about the Boshehr power plant because all Iranian nuclear facilities are under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and are visited by IAEA inspectors who observe all safe guards. He added, in a news conference today on the sidelines of the Inter-Parliamentary-Union (IPU) 117 conference, that there are hundreds of nuclear power stations which are under the IAEA agency's supervision, so there is no reason for concern.
Adel Hadad hailed relations between Iran and Kuwait and said "we have friendly and fraternal good relations and recently I have visited Kuwait and met with the Emir and all high ranking Kuwaiti officials; we are always ready to listen to our Kuwaiti friends and to other Gulf countries." He added that there are those who want to create some kind of fear of Iran while Iran is not a threat to any country as Islam does not allow Iran to encroach on other nations or threaten them. Adel Hadad confirmed that Iran has always been opposing any ill use of nuclear energy, saying that the Iranian nuclear plant is for peaceful purposes, "we have no intention of building a nuclear bomb". He said. "The IAEA has said clearly that the nuclear activities of Iran are no diversion, we are a member of IAEA, inspectors have come to Iran in large numbers, monitored with their cameras and confirmed that our nuclear activities are peaceful contrary to what the Americans are saying and that our activities are not a threat to world peace," he said. He noted that Iran's nuclear activities are completely with the framework of IAEA. However, he added that the concern of a few western countries regarding the nuclear activities of Iran has no basis.
"We consider the statements by the Americans an excuse and we believe that the opposition of the US to our nuclear activities is politically motivated and not legal," he said. The Americans, he added, should agree that the nuclear issue be dealt solely by the IAEA. Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Adel Hadad noted that Iran opposes the division of Iraq. "Iran and Bahrain asked that the issue of Iraq be included under an emergency item of the IPU but the vote of the delegates was for Myanmar as an emergency item, we respect the vote of the general assembly but we believe that public opining opposes what is happening in Iraq and believes that the issue of Iraq is more important than Myanmar," he added. He added that predictions on the future of Iraq is not an easy task. "We want a stable and united Iraq, this would be good for Iraq and for the countries of the region," he noted. On the issue of Palestine, he said that the solution of the Palestine issue would be through a referendum, it is a logical solution based on international law. There is a parallel with other UN sponsored referendum in other parts of the world; we do not know why this is accepted all over the world but not in Palestine; why avoid the vote of the people," he said. (end) hn.ajs KUNA 091845 Oct 07NNNN