No Substantial Agreement Possible As Long As U.S. Refuses To Recognize Iran’s Nuclear Right...
TEHRAN – An article published by Al Jazeera on Friday says that as long as Washington refuses to recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium, no substantial agreement will be possible.
Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) are engaged in a process of talks meant to help resolve the dispute over the country’s nuclear program.
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Following are excerpts of the article:
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, in Istanbul next week - on May 15. Purportedly, Ashton will see if the P5+1 dialogue with Iran can be put back on track after yet another round of nuclear talks with Iran failed last month.
Publicly, Western officials blame the failure either on the Islamic Republic’s upcoming presidential election or on that old fallback, Iranian “intransigence”. In reality, talks failed because America and its Western partners remain unwilling to recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium under international safeguards.
As a sovereign state, Iran is entitled to enrich, if it chooses; as a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is entitled to do so under safeguards. The NPT explicitly recognizes signatories’ “inalienable right” to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. That this inalienable right includes the right to enrich is clear from the NPT itself, its negotiating history, and decades of state practice, with multiple non-weapons state parties having developed safeguarded fuel-cycle infrastructures.
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