LEAD: Iran parliament tells government to revise IAEA cooperation

Nov 13, 2011, 17:29 GMT

Tehran - The Iranian parliament called on the government Sunday to revise its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 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 cooperation with the IAEA should therefore be seriously revised.

A special parliamentary committee has reportedly been assigned to explore how the cooperation could be downgraded.

Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Tuesday that the IAEA should present Tehran a copy of the documents claiming that Iran would be working on nuclear warheads.

'If the IAEA has really something about our nuclear programmes, why not giving them to us as well,' Salehi told official news agency IRNA.

The Iranian chef diplomat added the claims in the latest IAEA report had been raised in previous reports by the UN nuclear watchdog as well but none of them could ever be proven.

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