Iran considers India's position in the UN on its nuclear programme as positive and insisted that it was not involved in any violation of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran considers India's position in the UN on its nuclear programme as positive and insisted that it was not involved in any violation of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran also hit out at the global nuclear watchdog IAEA for suspecting any country of wrongdoing on nuclear issues on the basis of claims made by the US and warned that India could also fall victim to it.
Visiting Iranian leader Ali Akbar Velayati said India's position at the UN on Iran's nuclear programme was positive.
"Of course, India has also said that Iran should abide by its obligations to international treaties. We also agree with it. We consider this as a positive position," Velayati, adviser (international affairs) to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters here today.
At the same time, he questioned IAEA's actions against Iran on the basis of complaints from one country -- the US.
"Is it logical if one member like the US can claim that there are some reports with them and they have received some CDs in which they have accused Iran of doing something outside the NPT," he asked.
"The same may happen to any country like India. Will the Director General of the IAEA only follow the claims of the US," he asked.
Velayati said there was no problem between Iran and the IAEA because it was working within the framework of the NPT.
There was no covert place where Iran indulges in some activity outside the permanent observation of the global nuclear watchdog -- IAEA, he said.
Velayati accused the IAEA of always following the claims made by the US not only in connection with Iran but also Syria.
"The US wants to create the same situation in Syria as they did in Libya. They want to say that there are some people against the government in Syria. They want to create an international condition for doing the same thing in Syria like what they did in Libya," the Iranian leader said.
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