Salehi said the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear activities were well underway on all fronts, dismissing claims that the nuclear work was slowed down, and stressing on Tehran “inalienable right” to have nuclear power.
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi said the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear activities were well underway on all fronts, dismissing claims that the nuclear work was slowed down, and stressing on Tehran “inalienable right” to have nuclear power.
“Certain comments that part of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran’s nuclear activities have slowed down are false and unfounded,” Salehi told reporters on Wednesday.
“We will not compromise on any [of our] red lines and any of our rights stipulated in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” Salehi said following a Tehran conference.
Salehi further rejected reports that IAEA inspectors have taken samples at the Arak nuclear site in central Iran during their recent inspection of the nuclear facility, saying “no samples were taken from the Arak site and [IAEA] experts only visited it.”
As he dismissed reports by certain foreign media quoting some Western officials as saying that their ultimate goal is to halt Tehran’s nuclear energy program, Salehi stressed: ““Indubitably, enrichment is the Iranian nation’s inalienable right.”
The AEOI director added that such statements are the interpretations of the Western officials themselves, and that Iran is resolute in exercising its right.
“We are witnessing some mischievous conduct (concerning Iran’s nuclear energy program), but we will move forward with the talks [with the six world powers] and there are no worries,” Salehi underlined.
He emphasized that the AEOI will “absolutely move forward within the framework set by the Leader” of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, and reassured the Iranian nation that the country’s nuclear activities are moving full steam ahead in line with national interests.
