Iran urges nuclear dossier to be returned to IAEA

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Source: Xinhua

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Saturday urged the country's disputed nuclear case to be returned from the UN Security Council to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), pledging not to give in to the U.S. pressure, the state television reported.

"There's no reason for Iran's nuclear case to stay in the Security Council," the IAEA should handle it by itself, Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all Iranian matters, was quoted as telling IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei ...

In his last report released in mid-November, ElBaradei said, "Iran has made substantial progress in revealing the nature and extent of its disputed nuclear program, but needs to be more pro-active in providing information." ...

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UN nuclear chief presses Iran leaders on cooperation

... "The Americans think wrongly that they can the make the Islamic Republic of Iran submit by pressuring it on the nuclear issue," Khamenei told ElBaradei in his first ever meeting with Iran's undisputed number one.

"But they cannot make the Iranian nation submit by bringing up these issues and others," Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media.

ElBaradei's meeting with Khamenei was a rarity for any visiting head of an international organisation. When the then UN secretary general Kofi Annan visited Iran in 2006, he was not given an audience with Khamenei.

Making his first trip to Iran in one and a half years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general also met hardline top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1fLJL63DFgfRyn_z1s77Xw5mPVA

Iran keen to fully resolve N-row: Ahmadinejad
12 Jan 2008, 2138 hrs IST,PTI

DUBAI: Stressing that the IAEA should not act under the influence of big powers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday said Teheran is keen to resolve the issues about Iran's nuclear programme.

The Iranian leader made the remarks during a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei in Teheran ...

"Iran recognises IAEA as the only legal international body to talk on its nuclear activities. Of course it does not mean that Iran avoids talking with other countries on various topics," he added ...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Iran_keen_to_fully_resolve_N-row_Ahmadinejad/articleshow/2695342.cms

Iran calls on IAEA to be more "impartial"

... ElBaradei, who was accompanied by his deputy Olli Heinonen, arrived in Tehran Friday morning at the invitation of Gholam Reza Aqazadeh, head of Iran's atomic energy agency ...

Aqazadeh, for his side, vowed Iran would continue the cooperation with IAEA, and urging the nuclear dossier to be returned to the agency from the UN Security Council ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/12/content_7412000.htm