Iran said on Tuesday that it will never stop uranium enrichment, stressing that this is the Islamic Republic’s inalienable right.

Iran said on Tuesday that it will never stop uranium enrichment, stressing that this is the Islamic Republic’s inalienable right.

"Our enrichment activities will never stop and we are justified in carrying them out, and we will continue to do so under IAEA supervision," envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters.
"We will not give up our inalienable right to enrichment," he said.

Concerning Parchin military base, and allegations based on Western diplomats suggestions that the site had been "sanitized" to such an extent that a nuclear inspection would now be pointless, Soltanieh responded by saying that Parchin "has been blown out of proportion" and said claims of nuclear warhead design tests there were fabricated by foreign intelligence.

He said Iran was demanding to see the documents the IAEA was using to pursue its suspicions about Parchin and urged the agency to "close this chapter."
He also said Iran has complained to the IAEA about the leaks.

On Iran's intent to continue enriching uranium, Soltanieh noted that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the IAEA's statutes made no explicit mention of levels of enrichment.

"The level of enrichment and how much to enrich has not been fixed in either of those. There is no limitation," he said.
"Everything we do is under the supervision of the agency," Soltanieh stressed.

Iran confirms its program is for peaceful ends only insisting that is its right under the NPT while the Zionist entity, which is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with more than 200 nuclear heads, is not a signatory for this treaty.