TEHRAN DEMANDS COMPENSATION FOR ACCUSATIONS REGARDING TEHRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.12.2007 16:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran’s government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham on
Tuesday demanded compensation from the United States for accusations
made in recent years by Washington regarding Tehran’s nuclear program.
"The Americans have put a lot of pressure on us and manipulated world
public opinion against Iran with their baseless accusations and should
therefore pay the price for it," Gholam-Hossein Elham said.
"The whole world is aware that Iran has not even taken one single step
contrary to international regulations and that all nuclear centers in
Iran are supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
– the U.S. should therefore start revising its stance," the spokesman
added, RIA Novosti reports.
A U.S. intelligence report released Monday said that Iran halted its
atomic weapons program in 2003 and seemed less determined to develop
nuclear arms than the Bush administration previously believed.
As of mid-2003, Iran had not resumed its nuclear weapons program
even as it was continuing uranium enrichment in defiance of the UN
Security Council, the National Intelligence Estimate report added.