Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has requested an official explanation from the Austrian government regarding false reports by the country’s domestic intelligence reporting agency regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Austria’s national intelligence agency claimed in the report that Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program and expanding its missile capabilities.
An Iranian spokesman rejected the claims as false and unfounded because he tried to create a media atmosphere for Iran’s Islamic Republic. So it lacks reliability or validity, he said.
Referring to Iran’s membership in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the obvious fact that Iran’s nuclear programme will be subject to the most rigorous testing by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs viewed Austria’s move as eroding the IAEA’s credibility.
“Unlike Austria and some other European countries that are deceitfully silent about the arming of the Zionist regime with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction and, with their all-out support for this genocidal and occupying regime, and prevent the realization of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction(WMD), Iran is strongly opposed to nuclear weapons and other types of WMDs and is the founder and steadfast supporter of the idea of freeing the West Asian Region from WMDS.”
Baghaei also called for an official explanation of the Intel report from the Austrian government, describing it as provocative and destructive behavior from the official European institutions.
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