By Summer Said
The head of the United Nation’s atomic watchdog said Saturday that the issue with Iran overs its nuclear program won’t be resolved overnight and the Persian country should constructively cooperate with a team of inspectors heading to Tehran Sunday.
“It is in the interest of Iran to proactively and fully cooperate with the inspectors. I don’t think we can solve the issue overnight,”International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said in an interview on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.
“It is a complicated issue and has long history. It is not a black and white problem but long negotiations are not my objective,” he said.
The IAEA’s previous efforts to check Iran’s claim its nuclear program has only peaceful purpose had been met before with failure. The agency wants access to a military site called Parchin, which is suspected of conducting explosives testing.
Amano, a soft-spoken Japanese diplomat, took center stage in global affairs in November by releasing a study documenting Iran’s alleged efforts to develop the technologies needed to develop nuclear-tipped mid-range missiles and bomb-triggering systems. Tehran quickly rebuked the report, calling it politically motivated and based on falsified information.
“We have overall crediable information that indicates that Iran is engaging in the development of nuclear explosives,” he said.
“It is difficult to foresee how Iran will cooperate with the inspectors…we don’t know if Iran has declared everything to us and, he said adding that it was too early to say definitively that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday in Davos that there was no other alternative to addressing the Iran crisis than peaceful resolution through dialogue.Tehran has previously fired volleys of insults, accusing Amano of everything from colluding with Washington to complicity in a string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
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