Threat to refer Iran to UN only a propaganda move

Tehran Times:

Several MPs and analysts are all in agreement that the incentives offered by the United States to convince Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium are ridiculous and say that Iran is legally entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and should not compromise on its right.

They also told the Mehr News Agency that there is no reason to be concerned about the threats to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council. READ MORE

Political analyst Alireza Davari said here on Saturday that the threat by Britain, Germany, and France to refer Iran’s nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council is a propaganda move. ...

“This means that Iran should continue enrichment without Europe’s concern, but if Iran halts enrichment altogether there would no longer be any need to give objective guarantees,” he added.

He stated that Europe is only seeking pretexts by demanding a complete halt of Iran’s enrichment activities and threatening to refer the case to the UN.
“If the Europeans were not seeking pretexts, we could have easily found appropriate ways to give objective guarantees,” he said. ...

Referring to the U.S. offer of incentives, Jalali said that according to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), all signatories have the right to make use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and no incentive can prevent any country from working to achieve this goal.

The U.S. is trying to convince the world that Europe is incapable of leading the process of talks meant to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue, he observed.

“The main effort of Europe and the U.S. is to deprive Iran of its inalienable right to gain access to nuclear technology,” Mohammad Kiarashi, Iran’s former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Saturday.

Europe’s failure in the Geneva talks would officially discredit it in the diplomatic arena, Kiarashi added.

He called Washington’s recent change of policy a subterfuge, saying that the United States intends to create a dilemma for Iran through its apparent support of Europe in its talks with Iran.

“If Iran consents to a complete freeze of enrichment activities, the U.S. will realize its desired goal, and if we insist on our right to enrichment, the U.S. administration will try to refer Iran’s case to the UN,” Kiarashi said.

Political analyst Hossein Pur-Ahmadi noted that Iran will be obliged to pay a price to defend its obvious nuclear right.

Europe’s main objective in starting talks with Iran was to prevent U.S. domination of the Middle East, which would be detrimental to European interests, Pur-Ahmadi said on Saturday.