Mottaki: IAEA member-state can deny entrance to some agency’s inspectors

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Iran finds lawful the decision to deny entrance to several IAEA experts, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters. “Such actions like denying entrance of some IAEA inspectors to Tehran that possibly can be taken are legal and taken in the frameworks of the IAEA,” the minister noted.

Mentioning that an IAEA member-state has a right to deny entrance to the country to some inspectors from the list presented by the agency, Mottaki informed that as early as this week the Iranian foreign ministry will announce citizenship of those IAEA inspectors who were denied entrance to Iran. The minister also confirmed that Iran continued constructing centrifuges for uranium enrichment in the frameworks of implementing its peaceful nuclear program. “The activity is being carried out under the IAEA control,” he stressed.

Earlier, Alaedin Borujerdi, chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee informed that Tehran denied entrance to 38 IAEA inspectors in response to the UN Security Council resolution on sanctions against Iran.