Manouchehr Mottaki Quotes (38 Quotes)

As for a widening of the negotiations, we have a positive view but this should take place in agreement with other parties.

Russia's plan is at a stage of serious consideration, and negotiations on it are ongoing. Agreement between Tehran and Moscow has already been reached on certain points of Russia's proposals, in particular on increasing the number of participants in the project.

This proposal is a bridge between Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and restoring the international community's trust in Iran.

There is a very wrong assumption held by some that the West can do anything it wants through the Security Council.

Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned.

If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.

Referring the case to the Security Council would be a lose-lose game, and we would prefer that this game does not happen. We see a win-win situation, that is where the EU and international community have confidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran reaches its legitimate right.

We do not want anything more than our rights stated in the Nonproliferation Treaty, and we cannot accept anything beyond the regulations of the treaty and nuclear agency.

Iran also, like Japan, enjoys its right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. We are against nuclear weapons.

Iran has stopped all voluntary measures that it undertook in the past two-and-a-half to three years. We have no commitment to the Additional Protocol any more.

We do not accept global nuclear 'apartheid' and scientific 'apartheid'.

We are planning our positions, also our readiness, to reach, to compromise, based on all parties' benefits.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is insisting to provide Asia with the oil it needs as a reliable and effective source of energy and will not use oil as a foreign-policy instrument.

We are not going to use oil as political leverage in conducting our foreign policy.

Our contacts with the European Union will no longer be held with the EU-3, but in a unilateral manner with the different countries of the European Union.

We believe that the presence of the British military forces in Basra has led to the destabilization of the security situation in the city. The Islamic Republic of Iran demands the immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra.

If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isn't it useful for other countries We do not accept global nuclear and scientific 'apartheid'.

The Islamic Republic pays great cost to control and prevent transfer of narcotics to West.

I think 50 percent of the case is quite clear that is no evidence, no report, no document, no inspections show that any diversion is there. We're glad for that.

All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.

If we reach some compromise, we continue our cooperation from where we are now. That is, the research department will continue its activity.

If we reach the point where the existing international apparatus do not meet the the Iranian nation's right, the Islamic Republic's policies might come under re-examination.

The resolution is illegal and politically motivated.

They try, of course, to justify their illegal and discriminatory approach under the guise of the nonproliferation concern, the concern that we all share. The biased, exaggerated and unjustified propaganda is being disseminated around the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

I said we are ready for any new ideas to reach to some compromise on this issue. They are supporting some kind of nuclear apartheid which is not acceptable to us.

They could not find evidence which shows that Iran has diverted from its peaceful purposes of nuclear activities in Iran.

Iran stresses restoration of its right to access nuclear technology and prefers to make use of internationally recognized mechanisms and benefit from its membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The time for using language of threats is over, it's time for negotiation. We express our readiness for negotiations based on justice and a comprehensive compromise. We want to peacefully solve the problem.

The issue is quite simple. We would like to enjoy our membership as well as the other members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The country has followed the rules and regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency and wants to keep its rights.

This resolution has no legal basis. All it does is simply remove the opportunity for voluntary cooperation between Iran and the agency.

We would like to enjoy the right like Japan to have nuclear technology, of course for peaceful purposes.

We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence.

The thing these two countries have officially told us and expressed in diplomatic negotiations is their opposition to sanctions and military attacks.

Nuclear weapons are not in Iran's defense doctrine.

We believe the time of threats is over. There is still time for all the parties to reach a compromise, and I hope they use that time.

We would like to enjoy rights like Japan in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

I hope that the Iranian nuclear file will be returned to the authority of the organization that should be considering it - i. e., the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Any possible action by the board of governors (of the IAEA) in informing the UN security council about Iran's nuclear project in their February meeting, as I said before, will trigger the government to cut all its voluntary measures as per the law.