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Published 13:06 13.11.11 Latest update 13:06 13.11.11 Top Iran official: Tehran should reconsider cooperation with UN nuclear agency Ali Larijani slams 'hostile' tone of IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program as 'unprofessional', accuses the agency of becoming a political tool of the U.S. and its allies. By DPA
Ali Larijani slams 'hostile' tone of IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program as 'unprofessional', accuses the agency of becoming a political tool of the U.S. and its allies. The Iranian parliament called on the government Sunday to revise its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the wake of a damning report on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, state television IRIB reported.
Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani said that after the latest IAEA report, there was an urgent need to revise cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. He was referring to IAEA report released Tuesday, which stated that Iran had carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device." Tehran categorically rejected the report as unbalanced and politically motivated.
Larijani said the IAEA has become a political tool of the United States and its allies, and that the "hostile" tone of the report meant cooperation with the IAEA should therefore be seriously revised.
"The parliament deems necessary to review [Iran's] cooperation with the agency, because it showed with its new approach that cooperation and non-cooperation makes no difference in its decision -- which are unprofessional anyway," he told reporters, according to local media.